ambidexterity concept refers to the ability of organizations to address two incompatible objectives. in environmental uncertainty, organizational ambidexterity typically has a positive effect on performance and leads to sustainable competitive advantage, long-term success and survival. nevertheless, it is possible only when the culture enables organizational members to exploit current competenc...

A substantial body of work has examined how exploitative and exploratory learning processes need to be balanced within an organization in order to increase innovation, productivity, and firm performance. Since exploration and exploitation require different resources, structures, and processes, several approaches to balancing these activities have been suggested; one of which is simultaneous imp...

research on ambidexterity is burgeoning, yet understanding of the antecedents and consequences of both activities remains rather unclear. the purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of knowledge sharing on organizational ambidexterity (exploration and exploitation) as well as the mediating effect of mediating role of absorptive capacity. the research statistical population constitutes 9...

Organizational ambidexterity, defined as the simultaneous pursuit of exploitation and exploration, has become a very important topic in the study of organizations. Yet, as a recent and comprehensive review notes, “Despite the rapidly expanding number of studies referring to organizational ambidexterity, empirical tests of the ambidexterity–performance relationship remain scarce.” The contributi...

It has long been recognized in the literature that the pursuit of radical or disruptive innovation by established firms poses an organizational challenge for the firm. This is because the skills, structures, processes and mindsets required for exploiting the existing business are fundamentally different and often conflict with those required for radical innovation (i.e. exploration). This has l...

Although there is broad agreement that ambidexterity somehow relates to the simultaneous pursuit of exploratory and exploitative activities, a lack of conceptual clarity exists regarding the extent to which ambidexterity concerns matching the magnitude (BD) of exploration and exploitation on a relative basis, or concerns the combined magnitude (CD) of both activities. ...

Information systems (IS) development is becoming increasingly more geographically dispersed. Although process rigor, process standardization, and process agility are generally believed to have a positive impact on software development, it has not been well understood how these process capabilities affect distributed IS development. More important, no prior research has investigated their intera...

Organizations need to maintain enduring and stable organizational identity to gain long-term success while must adapt quickly to the increasingly volatile environment as a critical condition for profitability and survival. Such ongoing paradoxical challenge concerning management of organizational identity has been left unaddressed in the existing literature. Drawing on the ambidexterity and org...

This study proposes a new concept, green organisational ambidexterity, that integrates green exploration learning and green exploitation learning simultaneously. Besides, this study argues that the antecedents of green organisational ambidexterity are green shared vision and green absorptive capacity and its consequents are green radical innovation performance and green incremental innovation p...

The simultaneous pursuit of paradoxical strategies is an emergent means of attaining competitive advantage. By nature, exploration and exploitation are fundamentally different, inconsistent and contradictory, thus reflecting an instance of organizational ambidexterity. We assert that IT capabilities act through different mechanisms to influence ambidexterity. To test our model, we selected to g...