Tension and Paradox in Women-Oriented Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: A Duality of Ethics

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dc.contributor.authorPalakshappa N
dc.contributor.authorDodds S
dc.contributor.authorGrant S
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-08T20:52:03Z
dc.date.available2023-05-04
dc.date.available2023-05-08T20:52:03Z
dc.date.issued2023-05-04
dc.description.abstractThe pursuit of social goals and ethics in business creates challenges. Sustained efforts to address poverty, environmental degradation or health/wellbeing require meaningful and transformative responses that impact across multiple levels—individual, community and the global collective. Shifting predominant paradigms to facilitate change entails a renegotiation of business strategy—between organizations, their purpose(s), individual and collective stakeholders and ultimately with society at large. Hybrid organizations such as social enterprises are positioned to affect such change. However, in balancing divergent goals such organizations encounter tensions and paradox, creating a duality of ethics. Utilizing in-depth interviews to develop a case within the sustainable fashion industry, we identify tensions and paradox within women-oriented hybrid organizations. Significantly, managing these tensions and paradox results in multiple dualities of ethics, often with a wider impact on organizational founders/managers. We find three interrelated ethical dualities: business strategy and personal values; financial sustainability and holistic sustainability; and business, employee, societal wellbeing, and personal wellbeing. This insight is noteworthy when looked at within the broader context of sustainability and highlights the importance of sustainability in women-oriented hybrid organizations.
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dc.identifier.citationJournal of Business Ethics, 2023
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10551-023-05422-z
dc.identifier.elements-id461337
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn0167-4544
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.isPartOfJournal of Business Ethics
dc.relation.urihttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-023-05422-z
dc.rights(c) The author/s CC BY
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject.anzsrc1503 Business and Management
dc.subject.anzsrc1505 Marketing
dc.subject.anzsrc2201 Applied Ethics
dc.titleTension and Paradox in Women-Oriented Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: A Duality of Ethics
dc.typeJournal article
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pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/Massey Business School
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/Massey Business School/School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing
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