Hybridity in Contemporary Commercial Organizations: Implications for Employee Trust

Times of extensive institutional pressure challenge the existence of commercial organizations as entities that reproduce a single coherent market-orientated institutional template to achieve effectiveness. In tune with pressure from changing markets, contemporary commercial organizations adopt various combinations of skills, templates, and processes for new sources of competitive advantage. At a conceptual level, hybridity embraces the notion that organizations may embody multiple templates, logics or values to achieve effective organizational performance. However, at a practical level, hybridity presents tensions, inconsistencies and contradictions for these organizations; a state of affairs that could have adverse negative consequences for employees’ behaviour and trust in the organization. This book offers an exploration of individual-level responses to logics multiplicity for all those interested in the future of commercial organizations.


Ijeoma Jacklyn Okpanum is a Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader in the School of Business Management at the Sino-British College of the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China. She started her career in the Nigerian banking industry, before moving to the UK under the Nigerian PTDF scholarship scheme to pursue her Master’s degree in International Oil and Gas Management. In 2012, she joined the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow to pursue a PhD in Management. Her research interests are organizational hybridity, institutional logics, leadership, and trust.

There are currently no reviews for this title. Please do revisit this page again to see if some have been added.

Buy This Book

ISBN: 1-5275-7025-8

ISBN13: 978-1-5275-7025-2

Release Date: 17th June 2021

Pages: 308

Price: £63.99

-
+