Most corporate entrepreneurship studies have focused on either innovation, venturing or strategic renewal making comparison between the antecedents of all three aspects of corporate entrepreneurship difficult. Moreover, studies on corporate entrepreneurship hardly address organizational antecedents, while simultaneously managing and organizing CE and mainstream activities has been seen as a maj...

This paper describes a conceptual approach to individual and organizational competencies needed for Open Innovation (OI) using a new ambidexterity model. It starts from the assumption that the entire innovation process is rarely open by all means, as the OI concept may suggest. It rather takes into consideration that in practice especially for early phases of the innovation process the organiza...

Addressing the call for a deeper understanding of ambidexterity at the individual level, we propose that managers’ networks are an important yet understudied factor in the ability to balance the trade-off between exploring for new business and exploiting existing business. Analyses of 1449 ties in the internal and external networks of 79 senior managers in a management consulting firm revealed ...

Previous research focuses on firm and business unit level ambidexterity. Therefore, conceptual and empirically validated understanding about ambidexterity at the individual level of analysis is very scarce. This paper addresses this gap in the literature by investigating managers’ ambidexterity, delivering three contributions to theory and empirical research on ambidexterity. First, by proposin...

Despite substantial literature on managing two conflicting business models within one company, little has been done regarding qualitative studies investigating the organizational context and the installed integration and separation mechanisms between these two. Based on organizational context factors and business model elements, using the organizational ambidexterity as theoretical lens, this r...

this study aims to achieve a theory in the field of organizational ambidexterity and has been done to better understand this phenomenon in scientific and technological organizations. the research method is based on qualitative study and relying on grounded theory, in data collection unstructured and semi-structured research interviews was used and for data analysis paradigm model clarified by s...

Abstract Background and purpose: Today’s dynamic environment is increasingly pressuring public organizations to be simultaneously flexible efficient. The purpose of this study was examine the mediating role organizational ambidexterity in relationship between psychological capital perfor-mance that have bureaucratic limitations their activity are not as competitive private sector. Methods: A qu...

Plan-based and agile software development processes seem diametrically opposed in their approaches, with the former emphasizing discipline and control and the latter promoting flexibility and improvisation. Similar tensions in organizational contexts where efficiency versus flexibility considerations simultaneously jostle for management attention has led to the recognition that ambidexterity or...