1 Forthcoming in the August 2014 issue of the Academy of Management Journal FRONT STAGE AND BACK STAGE CONVENING: THE TRANSITION FROM OPPOSITION TO MUTUALISTIC CO-EXISTENCE IN ORGANIZATIONAL PHILANTHROPY JOHANNA MAIR* Hertie School of Governance Friedrichstrasse 180 10117 Berlin Germany Tel: +49 30 259219329 e-mail: mair@hertie-school.org LISA HEHENBERGER European Venture Philanthropy Association Rue Royale 94 1000 Brussels Belgium Tel: +32 2 5132131 e-mail: lhehenberger@evpa.eu.com * Corresponding author Acknowledgment This project is the result of a genuinely “mutualistic” effort, and both authors contributed equally. We are grateful to Kevin Corley and three anonymous reviewers for their generous, constructive and insightful comments during the review process. We also thank the European Venture Philanthropy Association for their support throughout the project. Steve Barley, Paul Brest, Daisy Chung, Joseph Galaskiewicz, Stine Grodal, Dick Scott, Christian Seelos, Q.P. Powell, Woody Powell, and the participants of the Stanford PACS workshop and the workshop on Networks & Organizations at Stanford provided valuable feedback. Africa Ariño, Julie Battilana, Fabrizio Ferraro, Juan Díez Medrano, Deb Meyerson, and Alfred Vernis offered comments on earlier versions of this paper.