PARADOXICAL TENSION: BALANCING CONTEXTUAL AMBIDEXTERITY

Contextual Determinants of Organizational Ambidexterity

A process for building inter-organizational contextual ambidexterity

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discover a three-step process for building contextual ambidexterity into inter-organizational IT-enabled service processes through developmental interventions. Design/methodology/approach – A longitudinal action research project was conducted. The empirical study consisted of three consecutive developmental interventions to support the collaborative dev...

Organizational Ambidexterity: Balancing Exploitation and Exploration in Organizations

Organizational Ambidexterity: Balancing Exploitation and Exploration for Sustained Performance

Organizational ambidexterity has emerged as a new research paradigm in organization theory, yet several issues fundamental to this debate remain controversial. We explore four central tensions here: Should organizations achieve ambidexterity through differentiation or through integration? Does ambidexterity occur at the individual or organizational level? Must organizations take a static or dyn...

Ambidexterity

a faculty as the right, and in many callings the power of equal use is very convenient. An ophthalmic surgeon for example who can use either hand indifferently for delicate eye operations can do his work more quickly and neatly than the man who can only trust his right hand. In piano and organ playing and in performing on most musical instruments ambidexterity is indispensable. Indeed in violin...