Facing modern epidemic and economic crises need to be faced with organizations that draw on different and often contradictory elements in terms of forms, in order to accommodate multiple instances deriving from concurrent stakeholders. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals contained in the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development represent a clear example of manifold demands requiring new forms of organizational actions able to improve health, education, cultural, environmental growth, while reducing inequality, and spurring economic development. Witnessing such variety, in recent year the organizational and managerial discourse has been widely dominated by the notion of hybridization.

 

  This session aims at discussing the new hybrid organizational forms with a focus on the protean nature of systems with their emerging, unpredictable, dynamic, non-linear evolutionary paths due to the challenges posed by the COVID 19 epidemic.

 

  Three main socio-economic crises are going to characterize the next future:

1. a sharp slowdown in the process of reducing inequalities (wealth, access to healthcare, gender issue, digital divide, human conditions, ethnic groups) and, consequently, a resource-constrained at the bottom of pyramid);

2. environmental and health crisis;

3. possible democracy crisis.

 

  We aim to analyze the hybridization phenomenon interpreted as innovative organizational paradigms, through which achieving sustainable development and value for the new Post Covid society.

Change and innovation in hybrid organizations can be been offered more insights from literature about cybernetic systems, self-organization, dissipative structures, coevolution, learning, crisis and catastrophes, highlighting the evolution of a social system in a Popperian logic.