A new framework for hybridity

Abstract

Chapter 2 makes an argument for the importance of organizing outside of the workplace by demonstrating how individuals interact with and experience organizations in everyday life. In an era of wicked problems, rapid change, and polarization, hybridity offers a vehicle for understanding organizing. A framework for hybridity highlights identities, forms, and rationales discussed in prior research and allows for new extensions of hybrid channels, actors, and contexts to show how actors navigate complexity and competing demands. Hybridity also challenges dichotomous thinking. Organizational actors often face competing demands that may be understood as requiring an “either-or” response, but hybridity offers a frame for challenging dichotomous thinking at individual, organizational, network, community, and societal levels.