Cultural hybridity and gendered forms of control in microcredit programs

Hidayah, Nunung Nurul (2025) Cultural hybridity and gendered forms of control in microcredit programs. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2025 (1).

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Abstract

The hybrid governance of microcredit programs represents a combination of multiple aspects of moral leadership, different socio-financial resources, and institutional powers in order to achieve socioeconomic scaling and community empowerment. Based on an ethnographic case study of five microcredit groups, this paper explores the process through which microcredit initiatives engage in cultural hybridity that affects its hybrid organizing in a context of complex sociocultural aspects and the situated logic surrounding the socioeconomic empowerment process. This paper provides insight into how cultural hybridity functions through co-constituting processes of hybrid organizing under dual neoliberal-patriarchal dominances and hierarchical controls. Cultural hybridity operates as a governing principle in redressing some of those cultural elements of patriarchal controls for neoliberal purposes. Cultural hybridity enables neoliberal power to (re)produce cultural space(s) that both empower women from any patriarchal constraints and position them within an accountability mechanism that involves self-surveillance as social collateral, and collective oversight in debt repayment to sustain the microcredit programs

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