..., this study focuses on how ambidextrous learning (AL) (exploratory and exploitative learning) affects exaptation and examines how knowledge scope (KS) and knowledge reconstruction ability (KRA) moderate the relationship between AL and exaptation. Design/methodology/approach Hypotheses were tested via...

... plays a mediating role in the relationship between information provision or co-creation and FIP. In contrast, exploratory learning plays a mediating role in the relationship between social interaction and FIP. KAC has a positive moderating effect on the relationship between exploitative learning...

... that EL has a significant and positive effect on adaptive innovation. This relationship is partially mediated through exploitative learning, exploratory learning, resource bricolage and boundary-spanning integration, respectively. The impact of EL on adaptive innovation is also sequentially transmitted...

... to external organizations and institutions therefore, helps SMEs to overcome the resource challenge that hinders the simultaneous adoption of exploratory and exploitative learning strategies (Hernández-Espallardo et al., 2011). SMEs that are open are therefore able to effectively engage...