How purchasing departments facilitate organizational ambidexterity

Contextual Determinants of Organizational Ambidexterity

How to Facilitate Social Contagion?

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals has proven to be a real challenge. Providing evidence on cost-effective interventions did not prove to be sufficient to secure the trust of national authorities, health care providers and patients. Introducing change in a health system requires a good understanding of the relationships between the actors of the system. Social network analysis can provi...

Achieving Organizational Flexibility through Ambidexterity

This article introduces the concept of organizational ambidexterity and explains its value to military planning and problem-solving from the tactical to strategic levels. I 2005, as the US military waged numerous armed conflicts around the world, Army Chief of Staff General Peter J. Schoomaker was confronted with a serious troop shortage. In an interview with Time, he explained not only how he ...

Organizational Ambidexterity: Antecedents, Outcomes, and Moderators

IT Enabled Agility in Organizational Ambidexterity

The aim of ambidextrous organizations is to balance exploratory and exploitative learning concepts. They innovate through experiments and research, and capture the value of innovations through refinement and continuous improvement. In this paper, we study the relationship of organizational ambidexterity and IT enabled agility. Based on a case study with a German car manufacturer we find that (1...