Investigating hybridity in organizations: a conceptual framework, a measurement scale, and effects of pro-social claims

This dissertation presents an investigation of the hybrid condition characterizing organizations combining social and economic objectives. Drawing on extant research efforts explaining how such organizations should cope with conflicting aims, the objective of this work is to capture the heterogeneous features of hybridity through three papers with the respective outputs: i) a conceptual framework justifying how hybridity in organizations emerges and externally manifests; ii) a measurement scale of the hybrid condition; iii) an analysis of the consequences of externally manifesting pro-social claims. This study proposes to expand the interpretation of the hybrid condition in current research streams, stimulating novel avenues of investigation that consider different facets of hybridity.