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The Roots of a Hybrid: The Impact of Adoption Conditions on Organizational Hybridity

As organizational hybridity has proliferated across a growing number of sectors, the topic has increasingly attracted the attention of scholars. Researchers have largely been interested in the tensions that hybrid organizations face, especially how organizational leaders might manage these tensions. Yet, little attention has been paid to how organizations become hybrid in the first place. This is problematic because hybridization processes are likely to determine what tensions arise and if and how leaders might respond to those tensions. In particular, I consider how variation in when and why an organization becomes hybrid is likely to shape organizational leaders’ understanding of the hybridity, the extent to which organizational members are likely to identify with each aspect of the hybridity, and leaders’ ability to manage those identifications. I suggest that these factors determine the nature and extent of associated intra-organizational conflict. Further, although scholars have suggested that hybrid...