textPrior studies have emphasized that structural attributes are crucial to simultaneously pursuing exploration and exploitation, yet our understanding of antecedents of ambidexterity is still limited. Structural differentiation can help ambidextrous organizations to maintain multiple inconsistent and conflicting demands; however, differentiated exploratory and exploitative activities need to mobilized, coordinated, integrated, and applied. Based on this idea, we delineate formal and informal senior team integration mechanisms (i.e. contingency rewards and social integration) and formal and informal organizational integration mechanisms (i.e. cross-functional interfaces and connectedness) and examine how they mediate the relationship between structural differentiation and ambidexterity. Overall, our findings suggest that the previously asserted direct effect of structural differentiation on ambidexterity operates through informal senior team (i.e. senior team social integration) and formal organizational (i.e. cross-functional interfaces) integration mechanisms. Through this richer explanation and empirical assessment, we contribute to a greater clarity and better understanding of how organizations may effectively pursue exploration and exploitation simultaneously to achieve ambidexterity.

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Structural Differentiation and Ambidexterity: The Mediating Role of Integration Mechanisms

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Paradoks eksploracji i eksploatacji - ambidexterity w zarządzaniu strategicznym

Twórczość w przedsiębiorstwie. Perspektywa obustronności organizacyjnej

Background. Organizational ambidexterity theories operate at one organizational level analysis or another, however we lack clear explanation for multilevel phenomena. Research aim. The purpose of his paper is to clarify the understanding of organizational ambidexterity. Method. This paper is based on the critical review of the literature. Key findings. I draw on paradox management theory to present a conceptual model framed in contradictions as articulated by dialectical approach.

Katarzyna Bratnicka

Papers

Reconsideration of Organizational Ambidexterity: a Dialectical Multilevel Approach