Should We Require Every New Venture to Be a Hybrid Organization?
Jeffery S. McMullen, Benjamin J. Warnick
Journal of Management Studies · 2016 · Volume 53 · Issue 4
Abstract
Critics of entrepreneurial capitalism have argued that entrepreneurship creates dysfunction in individuals, families, communities, and society because entrepreneurs neglect social and environmental dimensions of value in favour of financial value creation. By way of contrast, hybrid organizations, such as Benefit Corporations, are created explicitly to address social and environmental objectives in addition to their financial objective. Therefore, in this paper we explore the consequences of a world of blended value in which every new venture is required to be a hybrid organization. In doing so, we reveal the boundary conditions of current social criticism levied against entrepreneurship and suggest that blended value may best be relegated to the role of ideal or guideline as opposed to normative or legal obligation.
Keywords
blended value, corporate social responsibility, hybrid organization, social entrepreneurship, sustainable entrepreneurship, triple bottom line
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