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S. Alexius, S. Furusten (eds.), Managing Hybrid Organizations,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95486-8_1
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Exploring Constitutional Hybridity
Susanna Alexius and Staffan Furusten
1.1 Introduction
The aim of this book is to explore opportunities and challenges for the
management and governance of hybrid organizations. Although a topical
organizational form in contemporary society, with current establishments
of corporations designed as benefit corporations (B Corps) or social
enterprises (for-profit corporations established with an outspoken pur-
pose to provide charity or take genuine social responsibility), for example,
hybrid organizing is not a new phenomenon. The history of corporations
with a social engagement is a long one. Cooperative corporations and
mutually owned enterprises established to tackle social challenges go way
back, to the turn of the nineteenth century, or earlier. During the twen-
tieth century, we have moreover seen a rise, in many countries around the
S. Alexius (*) • S. Furusten
Score, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden
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