We investigated contextual organizational ambidexterity, defined as the capacity to simultaneously achieve alignment and adaptability at a business-unit level. Building on the leadership and organization context literatures, we argue that a context characterized by a combination of stretch, discipline, support, and trust facilitates contextual ambidexterity. Further, ambidexterity mediates the ...

It is imperative for a firm to possess capability to pursue dual conflict goals simultaneously, i.e., ambidexterity capability, in turbulence market environment. As a result of synergy between IT and business process, a firm is able to build its ambidexterity capability, namely, alignment between them to gain organizational alignment capability which offers the firm short-term performance on th...

From view of ambidexterity theory, this paper studied the base, impetus and characteristics for industry-university-institute cooperation entity to achieve ambidexterity crossing boundaries, and discussed the causes and obstacles of ambidexterity ability construction in Industry-University-Institute Cooperation. We found that there should be distinct knowledge process and ambidextrous mode in C...

In this paper we report a case study on how firms realize the business value of CRM by developing CRM-enabled ambidexterity to simultaneously pursue stability and develop adaptability. Results show that as the focal firm used CRM as a platform for standardizing operations and building routines, the top management team (TMT) and the operation team worked together to reflexively monitor the statu...

In this paper we explore some implications of the Miles and Snow (1978, 2003) typology of strategy types for public organizational adaptation and effectiveness, particularly as they are linked to organizational ambidexterity and dynamic capabilities. We see ambidexterity as referring to “the synchronous pursuit of both exploration and exploitation via loosely coupled and differentiated subunits...

Central to a process of IT adoption is the managerial ability to simultaneously balance the continuous exploring of the technology and its advantages, while also exploiting it. It is this simultaneity that we refer to as IT adoption ambidexterity, and recognize as an area in need of research. Based on prior research on organizational ambidexterity, this study employed a case study to investigat...

Organizations are commonly bothered by paradoxical pursuits, which make them demand on the development of organizational ambidexterity with dual exploitation and exploration abilities. This paper drawing on the organizational learning perspective, aims to uncover how the interaction of Information Technology (IT) and two distinguished organizational learning processes (i.e., strategic learning ...

a faculty as the right, and in many callings the power of equal use is very convenient. An ophthalmic surgeon for example who can use either hand indifferently for delicate eye operations can do his work more quickly and neatly than the man who can only trust his right hand. In piano and organ playing and in performing on most musical instruments ambidexterity is indispensable. Indeed in violin...

Some researchers have proposed that practices facilitating learning and knowledge transfer are particularly important to innovation. Some of the practices that researchers have studied include how organizations collaborate with other organizations, how organizations promote learning, and how an organization’s culture facilitates knowledge transfer and learning. And while some have proposed the ...

The author provides a framework comprising of propositions for further research explicating the relations between IT-based knowledge capabilities (IT-KC) and Commercialization of Innovations (CI). They posit that a firm's absorptive capacity and ambidexterity (ability to explore and exploit) affect CI. Further, absorptive capacity too can be an antecedent to ambidexterity. IT based knowledge ca...