Abstract

We draw on a hybrid organisation of artists in Imperial Russia to examine the experience of ‘social artrepreneurs’ – artists who pursued both social and commercial goals. Using contemporary theories of organisation, we argue that a key feature of this organisation – the collective of artists – helped in connecting means and ends while balancing hybridity through the process of partial organising. Our paper contributes to the burgeoning literature on how organisations deal with hybridity challenges by exploring the means-ends perspective at the level of an organisation. It highlights the use of partial organising for balancing social and commercial pursuits.

摘要

我们利用俄罗斯帝国的一个混合艺术家组织来研究“社会艺术家”的经历——他们既追求社会目标又追求商业目标。利用当代的组织理论，我们认为这个组织的一个关键特征——艺术家集体——有助于连接手段和目的，同时通过部分组织的过程平衡混合性。我们的论文通过探索组织层面的手段-目的视角，为关于组织如何应对混合挑战的新兴文献做出了贡献。它强调了使用部分组织来平衡社会和商业追求。