Benjamin Huybrechts

Benjamin is based on the Lille campus, where he teaches two courses on Sustainability. His research topics include the entrepreneurial dynamics leading to the creation of organizations pursuing a social mission (in particular social enterprises and cooperatives); and the partnerships and networks that these organizations form in order to collectively address grand challenges.

Education

• Master Université catholique de Louvain (2001 — 2004)
• PhD Thesis University of Liège (2005 — 2009)
• Master's degree Université catholique de Louvain (2001.09 — 2003.06)
• Bachelor Haute Ecole 'Groupe ICHEC - ISC Saint-Louis - ISFSC', Bruxelles (1999 — 2001)
• Higher education Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege (1997 — 1999)
• Angelus Instituut

Published

• Huybrechts B., Savarese C., Hudon M., (2021), The influence of interorganizational collaboration on logic conciliation and tensions within hybrid organizations: insights from social enterprise-corporate collaborations, Journal of Business Ethics, 173(4), pp. 709-721
• Huybrechts B., Dufays F., O'Shea, Noreen N., Nelson T., (2020), Resisting colonisation: Worker cooperatives’ conceptualisation and behaviour in a Habermasian perspective, Work, Employment and Society, 34(6), pp. 965–984
• Bauwens T., Huybrechts B., Dufays F., (2019), Understanding the diverse scaling strategies of social enterprises as hybrid organizations: the case of renewable energy cooperatives, Organization & Environment, 33(2), pp. 195-219
• Huybrechts B., Haugh H., (2018), The roles of networks in institutionalizing new hybrid organizational forms: Insights from the European renewable energy cooperative network, Organization Studies, 39(8), pp. 1085-1108
• Xhauflair V., Huybrechts B., Pichault F., (2018), How can new players establish themselves in highly institutionalized labour markets? A Belgian case study in the area of project-based work, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 56(2), pp. 370-394
• Nicholls A., Huybrechts B., (2016), Sustaining Inter-Organizational Relationships across Institutional Logics and Power Asymmetries: The Case of Fair Trade, Journal of Business Ethics, 135(4), pp. 699-714