Exploring the hybrid organizations debate in the business studies

Abstract This paper intends to explore the debate on hybrid organizations in business studies as business scholars have been increasingly focusing on hybrid organizations in recent times. This study extracted a sample of 370 papers from the Scopus database and performed bibliometric analysis, including descriptive and thematic analyses. The R and Bibliometrix packages are used to perform bibliometric analysis. The descriptive analysis results present the growing interest of business scholars in hybrid organizations research, especially more recently. The thematic analysis results identify eight major topics in the corpus, including hybrid organizations, hybrids, governance, sustainability, social mission, tensions, assembly chain, and hybridity. The future research agenda could be useful for academics to address the gaps highlighted to provide solutions for the efficiency of hybrid organizations.