Scale for classifying organizations as explorers, exploiters or ambidextrous

Assessment of Rangeland Degradation Indicators using Exploiters’ View between Authorized and Unauthorized Exploiters (Case Study: Saryqmish Winter Rangelands, Golestan Province, Iran)

     In recent years, large rangeland areas have been destroyed for various reasons, so that its negative impacts on local people's income and sustainable livelihood are become significant. Due to the fact that signs of negative or downward trends in the rangelands condition are being revealed prior to the complete degradation, a study was done to identify these sings and evaluate their importa...

Reconciling the Tensions in Learning and Knowledge

This paper identifies the critical learning trade-offs that managers face when defining their learning strategies. We integrate these learning choices into three configurations of learning strategies: " Explorers " , " Exploiters " , and " Innovators " , and address whether there is one optimal configuration of the learning tensions that leads to a superior learning strategy, or whether differe...

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...

Ambidextrous Leadership and Sustainability-Based Project Performance: The Role of Project Culture

Most studies in the project management field emphasized the effects of leaders or managers, but these effects have rarely been examined at the project level. To cover this research gap, this study applies organizational ambidexterity theory to examine the effects among ambidextrous leadership, ambidextrous culture and sustainability-based project performance. Using a valid sample of 217 project...

Building ambidextrous organizations. Forming your own "skunk works".