Corporate sustainability as a value leverage for crisis management - The hybrid organizational model of the Benefit Corporation in the context of the health emergency by COVID-19

The research work aims to investigate how the Benefit Corporation can constitute a valid and functional hybrid business organizational model in order to be able to face with a sustainable approach to business management, the negative socio-economic effects generated by the COVID-19 emergency. This organizational model appears to be functional in the management of adverse business scenarios according to the approaches of the theoretical frameworks of crisis management and disaster management. From the empirical analysis of the global population of Benefit Corporation companies formed by 2,974 units extracted from the "Corp Impact Database as of 2019, it emerges that their positive involvement towards community, customer, environmental, workers and sustainable governance dimensions can hopefully have a greater capacity to adapt to crisis contexts such as that of COVID-19. Therefore, it is possible to propose the hybrid organizational model of the Benefit Corporation as one of the fundamental pillars of post- crisis socio-economic recovery COVID-19.