This paper describes a conceptual approach to individual and organizational competencies needed for Open Innovation (OI) using a new ambidexterity model. It starts from the assumption that the entire innovation process is rarely open by all means, as the OI concept may suggest. It rather takes into consideration that in practice especially for early phases of the innovation process the organiza...

Addressing the call for a deeper understanding of ambidexterity at the individual level, we propose that managers’ networks are an important yet understudied factor in the ability to balance the trade-off between exploring for new business and exploiting existing business. Analyses of 1449 ties in the internal and external networks of 79 senior managers in a management consulting firm revealed ...

Firm agility is quickly becoming an essential capability for companies to effectively compete in hypercompetitive environments. At the same time, firms are using applications that enable close integration coupled with an increased ability to reconfigure processes. Such applications should manifest a balance between integration and reconfigurability. This is the concept of applications ambidexte...

Purpose: Innovation implies change that causes disruption. Ambidexterity is required to balance disruption and with the counter side, stability, enhance efficiency. This study set out understand how leadership of an organisation can ensure a focus simultaneously explore logic, for innovation, exploit functions are needed Design/methodology/approach: research sought shed new light on leaders man...

With the increasing frequency and impact of disruptions (i.e., in wake COVID 19, Suez Canal blockage), researchers practitioners are faced with an ongoing challenge to enable supply chain resilience. Drawing on theory paradox ambidexterity, this study highlights paradoxes enabling resilience proposes that firms manage such by developing ambidexterity capability. We build a research model hypoth...

Previous research has highlighted the importance of firms engaging in innovation ambidexterity through balancing exploiting existing offerings with exploring new opportunities. However, not all are equally capable doing so. To improve our understanding how can better achieve such ambidexterity, we develop a framework investigating joint effects intellectual capital, dynamic capabilities, and or...