ABSTRACT
One important, and intriguing, future challenge in studying hybridity and hybrid organisations and their value creation is to explore the evolution of connections and interactions between societal levels. This volume’s chapters provide valuable insights into this direction of further inquiry. In this chapter, we use this volume’s contributions, as well as illustrative examples from previous literature, to discuss relationships between micro-, meso- and macro-levels of hybrid governance in mixing, compromising and legitimising value(s) for different purposes, stakeholders and audiences. We discuss the significance of levels through concepts of economy, polity and civil society. We argue that types of hybrid value creation correspond with vertical and horizontal lines of separation but are attuned to societal levels differently. Mixing is attuned equally to surmounting both horizontal and vertical lines of separation. Compromising mostly concerns overlaps between horizontal lines. Legitimising is connected most closely to vertical interactions between societal levels. We end our discussion by presenting specific dynamics of value creation in the hybridity context.
