Andrea Girardi

Progetto di ricerca
Exploring the role of accounting, measurement, and governance to maintain multiple identities in hybrid organisations.

This thesis aims to explore how accounting, measuring and governance practices can contribute to maintaining the multiple identities of hybrid organisations. Hybrids, combining multiple forms and identities, deviate from each, resulting in internal and external tensions between the forms and identities they combine (Greenwood et al., 2011; Kraatz & Block, 2008). Therefore, they need to maintain their hybrid nature to pursue their hybrid mission (Battilana et al., 2017). To do this, hybrids must prevent a shift toward a single identity or form and maintain multiplicity at the core of their processes. Because of these challenges, hybrid organisations must develop organisational systems that ensure the ongoing coexistence of a multiplicity of identities and forms to maintain their hybrid nature over time (Kastberg & Lagström, 2019; Mair et al., 2015). Therefore, this thesis explores accounting, measurement and governance issues in hybrids and how these can support maintaining an equilibrium between controversial identities and forms. The thesis is composed of three different studies.

Pubblicazioni

• Girardi, A. (2022), Performance Measurement Systems Threatened by Pandemic Opportunities in Retail: how Managers Struggled to Balance Growing Sales with Unexpectedly Inadequate Supply Chain KPIs. In Handbook of Research on Digital Innovation and Networking in Post-COVID-19 Organizations, Pego A. (eds), 151-172

• Girardi A. (2022) Hybrid Organizations. In: Idowu S., Schmidpeter R., Capaldi N., Zu L., Del Baldo M., Abreu R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management. Springer, Cham