The Evolution of Hybrid Organisations’ Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

Hybrid organisations have become important due to their growing popularity based on their different and flexible forms and suitability for all the stakeholders. We investigate the evolutionary trend of the research on hybrid organisations discourse. For this purpose, we analyse a dataset composed of 471 papers selected from the Scopus platform. Adopting a bibliometric analysis approach, we perform descriptive and topic analyses. The results of the descriptive analysis show the growing interest of researchers on this specific topic, specifically in recent years. The topic analysis presents the main topics studied by the authors in our dataset. We find that hybrid organisations topic has been linked with different themes and issues, including social enterprises, institutional logics, social entrepreneurship, governance, sustainability, non-profit organisations and benefit corporation.