Organizational Ambidexterity: How Small Technology Firms Balance Innovation and Support

Organizational Learning and Innovation in High-Tech Small Firms

This paper explores the influence of the processes of learning in organizations on innovation performance in high-tech small firms. After reviewing the literature on learning and innovation, the paper defines the concepts of knowledge management and organizational learning and how they are interlinked. Hypotheses on the link between organizational learning and innovation are presented. An origi...

Exploitation-Exploration Tensions and Organizational Ambidexterity: Managing Paradoxes of Innovation

A exploitation and exploration enables success, even survival, but raises challenging tensions. Ambidextrous organizations excel at exploiting existing products to enable incremental innovation and at exploring new opportunities to foster more radical innovation, yet related research is limited. Largely conceptual, anecdotal, or single case studies offer architectural or contextual approaches. ...

Managing innovation for growth in high technology small firms

This paper studies ways to support sustainable growth in high technology small firms by managing innovation. The paper examines technology based and knowledge intensive business service firms (KIBS) and their innovation management in Finland. The goal is to find at least one meaningful innovation process for a small KIBS firm that takes growth into consideration. In the paper incremental, radic...

Factors Affecting Innovation in Technology Based Small Firms

The PhD focus is derived from recent studies into innovation in new technology ventures. The research highlighted that competitive advantage requires “meaningful product uniqueness” which involves market and product innovation factors. The performance of new entrants is based on a conceptual framework (Suzuki et al, 2002) for the entrepreneurial process developed recently (for a comparative stu...

Organizational structures to support innovation: how do companies