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作者:Jansen, Justin J. P.; Tempelaar, Michiel P.; van den Bosch, Frans A. J.; Volberda, Henk W.
作者单位:Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要:Prior studies have emphasized that structural attributes are crucial to simultaneously pursuing exploration and exploitation, yet our understanding of antecedents of ambidexterity is still limited. Structural differentiation can help ambidextrous organizations to maintain multiple inconsistent and conflicting demands; however, differentiated exploratory and exploitative activities need to be mobilized, coordinated, integrated, and applied. Based on this idea, we delineate formal and informal s...
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作者:Andriopoulos, Constantine; Lewis, Marianne W.
作者单位:Brunel University; University System of Ohio; University of Cincinnati
摘要:Achieving exploitation and exploration enables success, even survival, but raises challenging tensions. Ambidextrous organizations excel at exploiting existing products to enable incremental innovation and at exploring new opportunities to foster more radical innovation, yet related research is limited. Largely conceptual, anecdotal, or single case studies offer architectural or contextual approaches. Architectural ambidexterity proposes dual structures and strategies to differentiate efforts,...
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作者:Taylor, Alva; Helfat, Constance E.
作者单位:Dartmouth College
摘要:Technological innovation sometimes requires industry incumbents to shift to a completely new core technology. To successfully navigate a technological transition,firms often face the ambidextrous challenge of exploiting existing complementary assets to support the new exploratory core technology. We argue that an industry incumbent attempting to make a transition to a new technology requires linkages between organizational units responsible for developing the new technology and units in charge...
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作者:Groysberg, Boris; Lee, Linda-Eling
作者单位:Harvard University
摘要:This paper examines exploration and exploitation in professional service firms by focusing on the individuals who carry out the exploration and exploitation activities. Specifically, we examine the performance of star security analysts who join new firms in exploration versus exploitation roles. We find that stars hired to explore (initiate new activities) experience a short- and long-term performance decline; by contrast, stars who join new firms to exploit (reinforce existing activities) suf...
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作者:Raisch, Sebastian; Birkinshaw, Julian; Probst, Gilbert; Tushman, Michael L.
作者单位:University of St Gallen; University of London; London Business School; University of Geneva; Harvard University
摘要:Organizational ambidexterity has emerged as a new research paradigm in organization theory, yet several issues fundamental to this debate remain controversial. We explore four central tensions here: Should organizations achieve ambidexterity through differentiation or through integration? Does ambidexterity occur at the individual or organizational level? Must organizations take a static or dynamic perspective on ambidexterity? Finally, can ambidexterity arise internally, or do firms have to e...
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作者:Rothaermel, Frank T.; Alexandre, Maria Tereza
作者单位:University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要:A firm's organizational and technological boundaries are two important demarcation lines when sourcing for technology. Based on this theoretical lens, four possible combinations of exploration and exploitation emerge. Applying an ambidexterity perspective to a firm's technology sourcing strategy, we hypothesize that a curvilinear relationship exists between a firm's technology sourcing mix and its performance. We further introduce a contingency element by proposing that a firm's absorptive cap...
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作者:Cao, Qing; Gedajlovic, Eric; Zhang, Hongping
作者单位:University of Connecticut; Simon Fraser University; Shandong University
摘要:Significant ambiguity remains in the literature regarding the conceptualization of organizational ambidexterity. We unpack this construct into one with two dimensions we term the balance dimension of ambidexterity (BD) and the combined dimension of ambidexterity (CD). BD corresponds to a firm's orientation to maintain a close relative balance between exploratory and exploitative activities, whereas CD corresponds to their combined magnitude. We reason that these dimensions are conceptually dis...
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作者:Mom, Tom J. M.; van den Bosch, Frans A. J.; Volberda, Henk W.
作者单位:Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
摘要:Previous research focuses on firm and business unit level ambidexterity. Therefore, conceptual and empirically validated understanding about ambidexterity at the individual level of analysis is very scarce. This paper addresses this gap in the literature by investigating managers' ambidexterity, delivering three contributions to theory and empirical research on ambidexterity:first, by proposing three related characteristics of ambidextrous managers; second, by developing a model and associated...