The bright side of hybridity: Exploring how social enterprises manage and leverage their hybrid nature.

The Journal of Business Ethics has been at the forefront of this debate with its 2012 special issue “Social Entrepreneurship in Theory and Practice” (Pless 2012), which proposed a very pragmatic perspective focusing on the most practical constituencies of social entrepreneurship. Building on this ground, in 2016 a second special issue—“Social Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics: Does Social Equal Ethical?” (Chell et al. 2016)—has opened a new, interesting research route focused more specifically on the ethical challenges faced by social enterprises (André and Pache 2016; Chell et al. 2016) and social entrepreneurs (Bacq et al. 2016; Dey and Steyaert 2014; Smith et al. 2016). Link to the article

MONGELLI, L., RULLANI, F., RAMUS, T. and RIMAC, T. (2019). The bright side of hybridity: Exploring how social enterprises manage and leverage their hybrid nature. Journal of Business Ethics, 159, pp. 301-305.