Contribution for Repolis/DRIFT seminar, May 12th. 2020

1. Social innovation
and hybridity
Contribution for Repolis/DRIFT online seminar May 12th, 2020
Dr. Philip Marcel Karré
karre@essb.eur.nl
@philipkarre
https://www.eur.nl/people/philip-karre

2. Dr. P.M. Karré (karre@essb.eur.nl)

3. Agenda
• Hybridity as an unavoidable, complicating yet also promising issue in social
innovation.
• Working towards new approaches for tackling wicked problems through new
ways of organizing by new constellations of societal parties.
• Social innovation leads to parties from different organizational sectors
working together.
• Social innovation leads to organizational practices at the interface of these
sectors.
• Main questions:
• What do we mean by hybridity?
• How does it manifest itself in practices of social innovation?
• What are the effects of hybridity?
• How to deal with hybridity?
Dr. P.M. Karré (karre@essb.eur.nl)

4. Institutional logics
State Market Civil Society
The individual as… Citizen Customer Member
Main source of funding Taxes Sales Fees
Goal Common interest Shareholder value Stakeholder value
Steering through… Politics and
administration
Competition on the
market place
Formal and informal
influence of societal
stakeholders
Main values Equality, rule of law,
hierarchy
Entrepreneurship,
efficiency, effectiveness
Reciprocity, trust,
solidarity
Weaknesses Bureaucracy Exclusion Particularism,
paternalism, amateurism
Dr. P.M. Karré (karre@essb.eur.nl)

5. What do we mean by hybridity?
Billis, 2010
Dr. P.M. Karré (karre@essb.eur.nl)

6. Manifestations of hybridity I: Living Labs
Puerari, E.; De Koning, J.I.J.C.; Von Wirth, T.; Karré, P.M.; Mulder, I.J.; Loorbach, D.A. Co-Creation
Dynamics in Urban Living Labs. Sustainability 2018, 10, 1893.
Dr. P.M. Karré (karre@essb.eur.nl)

7. Manifestations of hybridity II: WISE
Dr. P.M. Karré (karre@essb.eur.nl)

8. Effects of hybridity
• Positive effects
• Stimulates innovation.
• Grants access to new resources.
• Brings together people with various, supplementary backgrounds
and expertise, creating synergy.
• Negative effects
• Creates ambiguity and stimulates opportunistic behaviour (e.g.
mission drift).
• Blocks access to resources.
• Leads to cultural clashes between people with different
backgrounds.
Dr. P.M. Karré (karre@essb.eur.nl)

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