How are Competing Logics Combined in Managerial Teams? The Impact of Branch Founding Team Hybridity on the Growth of Islamic Bank Branches in Turkey, 2002–19

Hybrid staffing – i.e., composing a workforce with individuals oppositional institutional logics is strategy organizations can use to navigate through complex environments. We propose that hybrid teams led by the legitimate logic from perspective of target audiences (conformist-led hybrids) will outperform all-conformist, non-hybrid teams, and contested (alien-led underperform teams. Moreover, performance advantage conformist-led hybrids be attenuated ideological polarization demographic stability embedding community, disadvantage alien-led exacerbated these two community characteristics. tested our multilevel contingency model newly founded Islamic bank branches in Turkey 2002–19. found had growth over non-hybrids, disadvantage, especially when communities were ideologically polarized. Theoretical implications are discussed.