Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2017
Abstract
This study contributes to the growing interest in how hybrid organizations manage paradoxical social—business tensions. Our empirical case is ‘impact sourcing’ – hybrids in global supply chains that hire staff from disadvantaged communities to provide services to business clients. We identify two major growth orientations - ‘community-focused’ and ‘client-focused’ growth - their inherent tensions and ways that hybrids manage them. The former favors slow growth and manages tensions through highly-integrated client and community relations; the latter promotes faster growth and manages client and community relations separately. Both growth orientations address social-business tensions in particular ways, but also create latent constraints that manifest when entrepreneurial aspirations conflict with the current growth path. In presenting and discussing our findings, we introduce pre-empting management practices of tensions, and the importance of geographic embeddedness and distance to the paradox literature.
Recommended Citation
Kannothra, C.G.; Manning, S.; Haigh, N. 2017. “How Hybrids Manage Growth and Social-Business Tensions in Global Supply Chains: The Case of Impact Sourcing”. Journal of Business Ethics. Forthcoming.
Publisher
Journal of Business Ethics
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