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Managing tensions between exploitative and exploratory innovation through purchasing function ambidexterity Managing tensions between exploitative and exploratory innovation through purchasing function ambidexterity
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In this article, the authors present an in-depth case study of a large firm which has implemented an ambidextrous purchasing function to contribute simultaneously to exploitative and exploratory innovation.About:
This article is published in Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management.The article was published on 2020-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 15 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ambidexterity & Purchasing.read more
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Impact of ambidexterity of blockchain technology and social factors on new product development: a supply chain and Industry 4.0 perspective
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a technology and social capital process aided product innovation conceptual model based on dynamic capability and supply chain ambidexterity theory, and empirically validated the model using data collected from 379 French manufacturing companies.
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Policies and exploitative and exploratory innovations of the wind power industry in China: The role of technological path dependence
Zihao Jiang,Zhiying Liu +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the effects of innovation policies on exploitative and exploratory innovations were investigated using micro-data from listed Chinese wind power enterprises from 2006 to 2019, and the effect of technological path dependence was assessed.
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The impacts of ambidextrous innovation on organizational obsolescence in turbulent environments
Shuting Chen,Dengke Yu +1 more
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors measured the effects of ambidextrous innovation and its mix strategy on organizational obsolescence with the moderating roles of environmental turbulence, and found that both exploratory and exploitative innovations significantly restrain organizational innovation, whereas it cannot moderate the effect of exploitative innovation.
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Purchasing involvement in new product development: An absorptive capacity perspective
TL;DR: In this article , the authors explore the role of purchasing involvement in facilitating the absorption of supplier knowledge into a firm's new product development (NPD) projects by adopting an absorptive capacity perspective.
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Ambidexterity in collaborative new product development processes
Kim Sundtoft Hald,Chiara Nordio +1 more
TL;DR: The analysis shows how the organization of the N PD projects, alignment strategies, approaches to reward structure, supplier integration willingness and absorptive capacity were all formative in the firms' abilities to achieve ambidexterity in the NPD processes.
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