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MANAGEMENT OF HYBRID ORGANISATIONS: A CASE STUDY OF A RETAILING "NETWORK ORGANIZATION"

Kristian Möller and Lasse Mitronen

The paper was published at the 17th IMP-conference in Oslo, Norway in 2001.

Hybrid organisations pose important theoretical and managerial questions. We examine alarge Finnish retail organisation in order to identify and understand the challenges of hybridsor network organisations in a retailing context. The governance forms and processes identifiedin the case organisation are discussed with a help of a proposed conceptual framework.We believe that the identified managerial implementations of these governance modes andprocesses will help us to understand also other hybrid organisations and the management ofhybrids in general.