Abstract
We examine how societal-level institutional logics impact the way in which hybridity develops in nonprofit organizations using international, comparative and qualitative case studies of community regeneration organizations in England and France. The research applies theoretically based conjectures about types of hybridity to empirical data generated from 20 interviews, document analysis and observation in five nonprofits in the city of Lyon and five in Sheffield. We find that the French nonprofits are ‘blended’ hybrids that integrate state and community institutional logics, while ‘assimilated’ hybrids combining state, community and market logics are found in the English cases. Undertaking contextually situated analysis of institutional logics generates new knowledge on the influences on nonprofits’ rules, practices and narratives, so improving the level of knowledge about, and capacity to manage, this sector.
Highlights
Nonprofit organizations are increasingly described as ‘hybrids,’ which blur the traditional boundaries between the public, private for-profit and community sectors (BillisPaper submitted to Voluntas for special issue on The Organizations of Civil Society.2010)
We examine how societal-level institutional logics impact the way in which hybridity develops in nonprofit organizations using international, comparative and qualitative case studies of community regeneration organizations in England and France
We find that the French nonprofits are ‘blended’ hybrids that integrate state and community institutional logics, while ‘assimilated’ hybrids combining state, community and market logics are found in the English cases
Summary
Nonprofit organizations are increasingly described as ‘hybrids,’ which blur the traditional boundaries between the public, private for-profit and community sectors (BillisPaper submitted to Voluntas for special issue on The Organizations of Civil Society.2010). England and France present compelling cases for comparison Both countries have large and vibrant nonprofit sectors, but may be seen as ‘most different cases’ in terms of welfare regimes, institutional configurations and governance traditions (Esping-Andersen 1990; Bevir et al 2003). Given these contextual and cultural differences, we hypothesize that the French and English organizations will be driven by different combinations of institutional logics and will exhibit different types of hybridity. Section four presents the analysis of institutional logics and hybridity in the two locations, followed by the development of a model of institutional logics and hybridity informed by Skelcher and Voluntas (2018) 29:911–924
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