ABSTRACT
This chapter aims is to broaden the view of hybridity in social activities, contexts, and organisations. It discusses hybridity at different levels of social and economic action. The chapter combine levels of hybridity with some traditional discussions in social theory associated with social structures. It describes ideals of administrative pragmatism and decision-making heuristics as reasoning for why it may make sense to rely on a clear distinction of the public and private. The chapter provides a rich variety of case illustrations from different contexts of hybrid activities. It concludes by discussing hybrid structures and activities as institutional, political, and cognitive practices in the context of uncertainty avoidance. In social life, hybridity may be observed in distinct settings of institutional, political, and economic action. The institutional emergence of industries is an interesting phenomenon and an extremely useful case for exploring hybrid forms of governance. National innovation systems represent an important area of public-private interactions within societies.
