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Structural Differentiation and Ambidexterity: The Mediating Role of Integration Mechanisms
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The findings suggest that the previously asserted direct effect of structural differentiation on ambidexterity operates through informal senior team and formal organizational integration mechanisms, and contributes to a greater clarity and better understanding of how organizations may effectively pursue exploration and exploitation simultaneously to achieve ambideXterity.Abstract:
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.read more
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An empirical study of the impact of goal orientation on individual ambidexterity – moderating roles of goal interdependence and constructive controversy
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors explored the factors influencing ambidextrous activities at the individual level, and constructed a systematic process mechanism of individual ambidexterity, integrating both internal and external factors.
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Antecedents and Consequences of Exploration and Exploitation Decisions : Evidence from Corporate Venture Capital Investing
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how negative performance feedback and corporate governance influence the direction of organizational change in terms of exploration and exploitation and how balancing such change over time influences firm performance in the CVC context.
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Identifying the focal role of top management paradoxical cognition in ambidextrous firms
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the influences of two top management team (TMT) processes on organizational ambidexterity: TMT behavioral integration and TMT involvement in small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
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Social capital and organizational ambidexterity: the moderating effect of absorptive capacity
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of social capital on organizational ambidexterity in the context of emerging economies, and found that absorptive capacity positively strengthened the impact on social capital.