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Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050)
Special Issue "Social Entrepreneurship, Hybrid Organizations and Sustainability" (https://www.mdpi.com/si/34465)
Dr. Bing Ran, Guest Editor,
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 August 2020.
Dear Colleagues,
The environmental, cultural, economic, and social sustainability of human beings requires new solutions on how we organize human activities to handle ever-changing challenges and environments. The traditional way of humans organizing into a "pure" type of organizations is no long viable for the sustainable development of our society, which requires all modern organizations to hybridize, an adaptive response to the ever-changing environmental constraints an organization faces. Hybridization refers to the seemingly compatible and incompatible institutional logics being selectively coupled to generate emergent features unavailable to traditional organizations employing these same logics separately-for example, the essential advantages of social entrepreneurship in dealing with sustainability is its hybrid nature. Social entrepreneurship refers to the creation and distribution of a public service or public good through entrepreneurial oriented organizations whose business activities are largely fed into serving the public good, the essence of which is hybridizing-a dialectical combination of two or more distinctively different institutional logics (social logic and business logic) and governance structures (service-driven vs. profit-driven).
Despite the growing utility and prevalence of hybrid organizations, in particular, the social entrepreneurial organizations, the organizing principles that select, discard, and hybridize institutional & organizational logics over time and context, and how the hybrid organization helps human beings to handle sustainability issues are little understood. It is imperative that these principles be identified as interrelated and interconnected that are common to hybrid organizational forms and fomented by complex environments readily applicable to governance practices trying to cope with the complexity of sustainability.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to examine why and how hybrid organizations such as social entrepreneurial organizations could help human beings to address sustainability issues. We are open to exploratory studies, conceptual papers, and empirical studies around this theme. Potential contributors are welcome to contact the Guest Editor to discuss the potential submissions before May 30, 2020. The submission deadline is August 30, 2020.
Manuscript Submission Information
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Bing Ran, PhD
Associate Professor of Public Administration
School of Public Affairs
Penn State Harrisburg
777 W. Harrisburg Pike
Middletown, PA 17057
Phone: 717 948 6057
Fax: 717 948 6320
Email: bur12@psu.edu