Unpacking the impact of innovation ambidexterity on export performance: Microfoundations and infrastructure investment

When designing and managing routines for their innovation activities firms often face a challenge. Either they can concentrate efforts on one approach i.e. exploring new ideas or exploiting its existing capabilities, try to do both, becoming ambidextrous. In this paper, we aim explore first the effect of exploration, exploitation ambidexterity export performance second moderating role investment in infrastructure. Using firm-level data from UK’s survey (CIS) find that both exploration improve performance. We also infrastructure weakens relationship. Counterintuitively, has negative performance, it is negatively moderated by use microfoundations arguments (the employ actions taken individuals groups within them shape exporting capabilities) explain how achieve