... innovation: exploratory innovation, which means creating new technologies, products or services, and exploitative innovation, which involves recombining existing knowledge and technologies (March, 1991). Exploratory innovation represents a higher-order outcome of absorptive capacity than exploitative...

... and exploratory innovation. In turn, exploitative innovation enhances business performance, whereas exploratory innovation has no influence on business performance. Competitive intensity strengthens while dysfunctional competition weakens the impact of buyer–supplier interaction on ambidextrous innovation...