Organizing Hybrid Circularity: Understanding Logics of Complex Social and Environmental Problems.

To tackle complex social and environmental problems, this article goes beyond existing hybridity scholarship, which is mostly focused on managing hybrid tensions at organizational and intra-organizational levels. Instead, we outline the inter-organizational and systemic dynamics of hybrid organizing to unveil how different logics integrate across scales, i.e., social, ecological, and eco-efficiency logics. Bringing together the social entrepreneur approach in the hybridity literature and the circular economy approach in the socio-ecological systems perspective, we develop a theoretical framework of four logics of hybrid circularity at systems level. We discuss the trade-offs and synergies between these logics, illustrating our argument with brief case studies from the circular economy domain. Our framework suggests that effective processes of hybrid circularity depend on the scope and boundary setting of the social and environmental problems faced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]