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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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Enabling Conditions for Organizational Change Production by Cross Functional Teams in Multinational Corporations : An In-Depth Multi Cases Study of the Marketing, Sales and Distribution Transformation in Pharmaceutical Multinational Companies
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative study of one Pilot Team and four teams dedicated to marketing, sales and distribution transformation in two pharmaceutical companies is presented, showing that cross-functional teams succeed best through high level coupling activities with the remainder of the organization during the early and the later phases of a project.
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Organizational antecedents and competitive consequences of environmental proactivity in the hotel industry
María D. López-Gamero,Eva M. Pertusa-Ortega,José F. Molina-Azorín,Juan J. Tarí-Guilló,Jorge Pereira-Moliner +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of organizational design variables (specialization, decentralization, formalization, link mechanisms, and informal social relations) on environmental proactivity and the impact of this proactivity on the competitiveness of hotels is examined.
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Social innovation in living labs: the micro-level process model of public-private partnerships
TL;DR: In this paper, a micro-level process model for the development of social innovation within living labs is proposed, which suggests that the interaction between organisations and users can be guaranteed through ambidexterity, learning, collaboration and empowerment.
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Facilitating Ambidexterity in Replicator Organizations: Artifacts in Their Role as Routine-Recreators
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show how a globally operating replicator firm integrates the logic of ambidexterity into its organization and explain how artifacts such as rulebooks facilitate not only standardized replication, but also innovation.
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Managerial ambidexterity and the cultural toolkit in project delivery
TL;DR: This paper found that middle managers enable their own exploitative, exploratory and ambidextrous behaviors by invoking a repertoire of values selected from their organization's cultural toolkit, which serve as cultural resources for action.