Agents of Change? An Inter-Organizational Research Agenda on Hybrid New Ventures

Abstract

Hybrid ventures are on the rise, both in practice and in scholarly circles. Despite this momentum, there is a paucity of inter-organizational research on hybrid ventures. Such research is necessary to substantiate a prevailing belief about hybrid entrepreneurs: namely, that they are actively changing the world. Highlighting three “innovations” that hybrid entrepreneurs and their ventures bring to organizational fields – (1) a hybrid identity, (2) a hybrid organizational form, and (3) a hybrid logic – this chapter identifies inter-organizational research questions and scholarly conversations that may be capable of evaluating whether hybrid entrepreneurs are indeed “agents of change.”

Citation

Bergman, B. (2017), "Agents of Change? An Inter-Organizational Research Agenda on Hybrid New Ventures", Corbett, A.C. and Katz, J.A. (Ed.) Hybrid Ventures (Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth, Vol. 19), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 219-232. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1074-754020170000019007