Exploring the determinants of ambidexterity in the context of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs): A meta-analytical review

Abstract Decades of ambidexterity research have gained huge scholarly attention from diverse areas like marketing, organizational learning, innovation management, supply chain strategy, and entrepreneurship. However, it has been observed that past studies do not provide a quantitative assessment determinants applicable to small medium firms. In response, this study attempts address gap by providing an extensive list eight are significantly related Small Medium Enterprise (SME) ambidexterity. We employed Random effects meta-analytical procedure examine the combined effect sizes each determinant. The analysis was based on 37 empirical publications 2004 2021, involving 8422 SME observations 48 correlations. findings meta-analysis revealed all considered such as Knowledge Entrepreneurial orientation, Formalization, Market Networking, Technological capability, Organization context, Environmental dynamism heterogeneous, they exert significant positive impact