Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: Scholars have identified several antecedents of organizational ambidexterity.However, we only have limited understanding of the ways that prior learning characteristics influence the achievement of organizational ambidexterity.In this manuscript, we focus on the degree to which organizations focus on exploitation to uncover the relationship between prior learning characteristics and the achievement of organizational ambidexterity.We argue that organizations' exploitation orientations negatively influence the achievement of organizational ambidexterity because exploitation-oriented organizations grow more exploitation-oriented as exploitation crowds out subsequent exploration.This antagonistic relationship between exploitation and exploration is resolved when organizations are characterized by problemistic search, deliberate learning, or speciation, as shown by a positive association between exploitation orientation and the achievement of organizational ambidexterity.
Author: Osamu Suzuki
Language: English
Subfield: Strategy and Management
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W17017509