Table of contents - Special Issue: Accountability and Performance Challenges in Hybrid organisations
Guest Editors: Giuseppe Grossi, Martin Piber, Massimo Sargiacomo, Marie-Soleil Tremblay, Jarmo Vakkuri
Accounting, performance and accountability challenges in hybrid organisations: a value creation perspective
Giuseppe Grossi, Jarmo Vakkuri, Massimo SargiacomoDrawing upon theoretical insights on value creation perspectives, the authors aim to advance the understanding of performance and accountability in different hybrid organisations.
Hybrid organizations and an ethic of accountability: the role of accountability systems in constructing responsible hybridity
Lisa Baudot, Jesse Dillard, Nadra PencleBuilding on the research program of Dillard and Brown (2015) and Dillard and Vinnari (2019), specifically related to an “ethic of accountability,” this paper recognizes…
Hybridization as practice: clinical engagement with performance metrics and accounting technologies in the English NHS
Christos Begkos, Katerina AntonopoulouThis study aims to investigate the hybridization practices that medical managers engage with to promote accounting and performance measurement in the hybrid setting of healthcare…
Regulation as a force for hybrid organization: evidence from the Bonneville Power Administration (1980–2012)
Amanda M. Convery, Matt KaufmanThis case study highlights state-logic influence on hybrid organizations and institutionally complex environments through acts of regulation (and deregulation).
(Counter) accounting for hybrid organising: a case of the Great Exhibition of the North
Laurence Ferry, Richard SlackHybrid organising faces a fundamental challenge in managing multiple and conflicting logics. Prior studies have evidenced the performative role of accounting within such a context…
Accounting in and for hybrids. Observations of the power of disentanglements
Gustaf Kastberg Weichselberger, Cristian LagströmThe authors argue that the mainstream scholarly discourse on hybridity and accounting is thus far primarily interested in the use and effects of accounting “in” hybrid…
Ambidextrous sustainability, organisational structure and performance in hybrid organisations
Joshua Maine, Emilia Florin Samuelsson, Timur UmanDrawing on paradox theory, this study explores how ambidextrous sustainability relates to organisational performance in hybrid organisations represented by Swedish municipal…
Competing logics in a hybrid organization: ICT service provision in the Italian health care sector
Laura Maran, Alan LoweThis paper reports an investigation of a hybrid ex-state-owned enterprise (ex-SOE) providing ICT (Information and Communication Technology) services in the Italian healthcare…
Hybridity and the use of performance measurement: facilitating compromises or creating moral struggles? Insights from healthcare organizations
Agathe Morinière, Irène GeorgescuThis study aims to understand whether and how the use of performance measures in the context of healthcare organizations facilitates the dynamics of compromise or whether it…
Biased by design – the case of horizontal accountability in a hybrid organization
Tomi Rajala, Petra KokkoThis study examines unexplored horizontal accountability types between public, private and third sector actors within a hybrid organization. The case organization was applying a…
Accounting, microfoundations, hybridization and longitudinal conflict in a Finnish health care organization
Antti Rautiainen, Toni Mättö, Kari Sippola, Jukka O. PellinenThis article analyzes the cognitive microfoundations, conflicting institutional logics and professional hybridization in a case characterized by conflict.
Disaster governance and hybrid organizations: accounting, performance challenges and evacuee housing
Massimo Sargiacomo, Stephen P. WalkerThe purpose of this paper is to investigate how public/private hybrid and ambiguous organizations played pivotal roles in a governmental programme of housing reconstruction…
What is good work in a hybrid organization? On the efforts of sequencing registers of valuation
Ida Schrøder, Emilia Cederberg, Amalie M. HaugeThis paper investigates how different and sometimes conflicting approaches to performance evaluations are hybridized in the day-to-day activities of a disciplined hybrid…
The impact of hybridity on PPP governance and related accountability mechanisms: the case of UK education PPPs
Anne Stafford, Pamela StapletonContemporary organisational landscapes offer opportunities for hybrids to thrive. Public–private partnerships (PPPs) are one thriving hybrid form incorporating the use of…
Network control and balanced scorecard as inscriptions in purchaser–provider arrangements: insights from a hybrid government agency
Nur Haiza Muhammad Zawawi, Zahirul HoqueThis article examines the power of management control mechanisms as “inscriptions” for bringing the interests of organisations within a purchaser–provider network into alignment.
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hybridEditors:
- Prof James Guthrie
- Prof Lee Parker