Organizational Ambidexterity: Implications for the Strategy-Performance Linkage

✍ Scribed by W. Henning Blarr (auth.)

• Publisher: Gabler Verlag
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 215
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Today’s companies in diverse industries perceive increasing competition and an accelerating pace of change. To cope with these challenges, they need to leverage their current competencies and exploit existing products and services, while simultaneously build new capabilities to develop innovative solutions. Therefore, instead of selecting and maintaining a focus on either efficiency or flexibility, these firms balance resource allocation and become so-called ambidextrous organizations. W. Henning Blarr analyzes this balancing act, requiring the ability to simultaneously pursue both incremental and discontinuous change. He shows that compared to organizations focusing on either exploitative or explorative activities, ambidextrous organizations significantly obtain higher levels of financial performance.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Introduction....Pages 1-6
The Concept of Fit....Pages 7-56
Organizational Ambidexterity....Pages 57-82
Organizational Ambidexterity and Strategic Fit....Pages 83-105
Research Design, Data Generation, and the Research Instrument....Pages 107-131
Results....Pages 133-164
Discussion and Implications....Pages 165-177
Back Matter....Pages 179-205

✦ Subjects

Business/Management Science, general