Paradox theory is attracting increasing interest from entrepreneurship scholars seeking to understand how entrepreneurs who operate hybrid organizations such as prosocial ventures can effectively address grand challenges. The organizational paradox literature suggests that differences in actors' approach to paradoxes can occur through the acquisition of different reasoning styles through exposure to different national cultures and cultural resources. We complement the paradox research stream on culture as a resource with the alternative perspective of culture as an experience, which we argue offers additional insight into hybridity within a global context because intercultural experiences are intrinsically paradoxical. Our 18 case studies of immigrant entrepreneurs from the African diaspora operating their prosocial ventures in Western contexts finds that the ways that immigrant entrepreneurs approach tensions in their prosocial ventures mirrors the nature of their intercultural experience. We also find that approaches to paradox vary based on structural barriers such as social exclusion that entrepreneurs faced in their formative years. Overall, our study contributes to research on culture in paradox theory and the prosocial venturing literature by elucidating how entrepreneurs' intercultural experience and the global macro-level systems in which it is embedded inform the degree and configurations of hybridity in prosocial ventures.

悖论理论吸引了越来越多的企业家学者，他们希望了解经营混合社会组织（如亲社会企业）的企业家如何有效应对巨大挑战。组织悖论文献表明，通过暴露于不同的民族文化和文化资源而获得不同的推理方式，行为者对待悖论的方法可能会有所不同。我们将文化作为资源的悖论研究流与文化作为体验的另类观点相辅相成，我们认为这为全球背景下的混合性提供了更多的见解，因为跨文化体验本质上是自相矛盾的。我们对来自非洲侨民的移民企业家进行了18个案例研究，这些移民在西方背景下经营亲社会企业，发现移民企业家在亲社会企业中处理紧张局势的方式反映了他们跨文化经历的本质。我们还发现，针对悖论的方法因结构性障碍而异，例如企业家在成长初期所面临的社会排斥。总体而言，我们的研究通过阐明企业家的跨文化经验以及嵌入其中的全球宏观层面的系统如何告知亲社会企业中的混合程度和结构，为悖论理论和亲社会冒险文学中的文化研究做出了贡献。