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My research focuses on the tensions experienced by organizations that simultaneously pursue multiple objectives, and the forms of hybrid organizing by which organizations can address these tensions. My research is published in journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Academy of Management Annals.
My teaching at HKS focuses on the organizational strategies of mission-driven public and private sector organizations. Previously, I was a professor at New York University and at INSEAD, based in Singapore. Earlier in my career, I worked at the Bridgespan Group, a management consultancy serving social sector organizations.
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Published and forthcoming research
(* equal authorship | † graduate student co-author)Lee, M. and Whitson, J. "Personal control and institutional migration." Forthcoming, Academy of Management Review.
Adbi, A., Lee, M., Singh, J. 2024. "Community Influence on Microfinance Loan Defaults under Crisis Conditions: Evidence from Indian Demonetization." Strategic Management Journal, 45(3): 535-563.
Lee, M., Battilana, J. 2020. “How the zebra got its stripes: Imprinting of individuals and hybrid social ventures.” Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 69: Organizational Hybridity, 139-165.
Lee, M., Adbi, A.†, and Singh, J. 2020. “Hybrid organizations, categorical cognition, and outcome efficiency in impact investing decisions.” Strategic Management Journal, 41(1): 86-107.
Lee, M.*, Ramus, T.*, and Vaccaro, A. 2018. “From protest to product: Strategic frame brokerage in a commercial social movement organization.” Academy of Management Journal, 61(6): 2130-58.
Lee, M. and Marquis, C. 2018. “Large corporations, social capital, and community philanthropy.” Advances in Strategic Management, 38: 197-226.
Lee, M.* and Huang, L.* 2018. “Gender bias, social impact framing, and evaluation of entrepreneurial ventures.” Organization Science, 29(1): 1-16.
Dimitriadis, S.†, Lee, M., Ramarajan, L., and Battilana, J. 2017. “Blurring the boundaries between the social and commercial sectors: The interplay of gender and local communities in the commercialization of social ventures.” Organization Science, 28(5): 819-839.
Almandoz, J., Lee, M., and Marquis, C. 2017. “Different shades of green: The impact of complex and uncertain environments on the strategies of innovative hybrid organizations.” Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 50: 31-67.
Lee, M. and Jay, J. 2015. “Strategic responses to hybrid social ventures.” California Management Review, 57(3): 126-148.
Battilana, J.* and Lee, M.* 2014. “Advancing research on hybrid organizing – Insights from the study of social enterprises.” Academy of Management Annals, 8(1): 397-441.
Lee, M., Battilana, J., and Wang, T. 2014. “Building an infrastructure for empirical research on social enterprise: Challenges and opportunities.” In J. Short (ed.), Research Methodology in Strategy and Management, 9: Research Methods in Social Entrepreneurship, 241-264. Emerald.
Marquis, C. and Lee, M. 2013. “Who is governing whom? Senior managers, governance and the structure of generosity in large U.S. firms.” Strategic Management Journal, 34(4): 483-497.
Battilana, J., Lee, M., Walker, J., and Dorsey, C. 2012. “In search of the hybrid ideal.” Stanford Social Innovation Review, Summer 2012.
Under peer review and invited revisions
“Social responsibility orientation and employer advantage across the employment lifecycle.”(with J. Daniel Kim). Under 2nd round review, Strategic Management Journal.
“Peer effects in corporate social responsibility reporting: A randomized field experiment.” (with Jasjit Singh and Devanshee Shukla†). Revise & Resubmit, Organization Science.
“Organization design for the management of institutional multiplicity.” (with Tommaso Ramus, Antonino Vaccaro, and Pietro Versari†). Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Management.
“Two sides of the same token: How multitokenism shapes minority representation in organizations.” Under review.
“Organizational civic culture: Workplaces as engines of democratic participation” (with Reuben Hurst, Max Kagan and Justin Frake). Under review.
“Strategic drift: Institutional pluralism, specialization, and organizational growth” (with Tommaso Ramus and Stefano Brusoni). Under review.
“B Corporations and employee retention.” Under review.
Working papers
“Architectural social innovation”
“Need, efficacy, and financing of the entrepreneurial poor: Evidence from Kiva.org”
“Acquisitions, sales and mission drift in the natural foods industry” (with May-Anne Very†)
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