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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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Conciliating Exploration and Exploitation at Middle-Manager Level: The Case Study of a European Bank Introducing Big Data
TL;DR: The case study at one of the biggest European banks which is introducing Big Data technologies to support the activity of its corporate relationship managers gives evidences that cross-functional teams involving directly these two poles are not, at the first step, the most effective solution at middle-manager level.
The long March: the quest for valid text based indicators of exploration and exploitation
TL;DR: In this paper, an inductive approach retrieving keywords from the body of text and based on the validity analyses provides more robust results than the original terminology and keywords proposed by March to construct indicators of firms? orientation towards exploration or exploitation.
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Strategic Orientation and Organizational Ambidexterity Practices of Mobile Communication Firms in Port Harcourt
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between strategic orientation and organizational ambidexterity practices of mobile communication firms in Port Harcourt and found that strategic orientation has significant relationship with organisational ambideXterity.
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Putting the Individual in Ambidexterity – Identifying Activities to Achieve Organisational Ambidexterity and Long-Term Survival
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Examining the Antecedents of Organizational Ambidexterity from the Perspective of Structure and Context
TL;DR: In this article, the authors uncovered the question of how to realize organizational ambidexterity from the perspective of structure and context, which is referred to as Structural AmbideXterity.