Knowledge management (KM) is considered an important strategic tool to maintain performance and survive a fluctuating environment. The effective implementation of KM initiatives helps organizations gain the ability balance contradictory demands, known as organizational ambidexterity, competitive advantage. purpose this study develop argue theoretical model demonstrating connection between knowl...

Abstract This study presents paradoxical tensions as the ‘missing link’ at intersection of entrepreneurial family and firm management: a link that crucially affects innovation-related decisions such ambidexterity. Specifically, argues relationship between cohesion organizational ambidexterity within firms is mediated by (latent salient). Drawing on survey data from 206 German firms, support fou...

Corresponding author: Farbod Fadai, MD Associate professor of psychiatry, University of Welfare and Social Sciences, Kudakiar Avenue, Daneshju Bulevard, Evin, Tehran TelFax: +98-21-33401604 Email: [email protected] Objective: in recent years different hypotheses with respect to the formation of cerebral laterality were proposed. Some of the researchers claim that cerebral dominance and lat...

Abstract Incumbent companies are launching digital transformation initiatives (DTIs) to cope with technological changes, challenging competitive environments, increasing customer demands, and other digitalization challenges. The DTI spectrum is broad covers structural contextual changes. Companies often launch multiple. concurrent DTIs, resulting in considerable organizational complexity. Howev...

Abstract Buoyed by recent calls for research to explore micro-level cognitive explanations ambidexterity, this study examines how individuals’ self-efficacy and resilience affect individual ambidexterity across different institutional environments. Building on social theory, we posit that enhances via such relationship varies economic Our symmetric (PLS-SEM) configurational (fsQCA) analyses of ...

Emerging evidence seems to indicate that most systems development organizations are attempting to utilize both agile and traditional approaches. This study aims to understand the reasons organizations feel the need for this unlikely juxtaposition and the organizational challenges in sustaining the opposing cultures. Drawing on the extensive literature in organizational theory and management, we...

Leader opening and closing behaviors are assumed to foster high levels of employee exploration and exploitation behaviors, hence motivating employee innovative performance. Applying the ambidexterity theory of leadership for innovation, results revealed that leader opening and closing behaviors positively predicted employee exploration and exploitation behaviors, respectively, above and beyond ...