... offers solutions, allowing companies to simultaneously explore DBMs while exploiting traditional ones. In this study, we show how tailored approaches to ambidexterity offer substantial potential for addressing incumbents’ obstacles to DBMs, enabling them to remain at the forefront of innovation...

... projects and their teams over an entire year to better understand the evolution from the exploration phase to the exploitation phase during the life cycle of such projects. To do so, the authors conducted a qualitative case study, in which they took both observer and participant roles. They analyzed...

...Chandra Dwipayana; Ruslan Prijadi; Mohammad Hamsal Purpose This study proposed the integrative model of dynamic dominant logic (DL) with exploitation (EP) and exploration (ER) as a pattern of actions in endeavoring firm performance (FP). This study also intended to explain the multiple patterns...

... when accessing, assimilating, and exploiting the knowledge embedded in an expanded set of services provided by an outsourcing supplier. Originality/value This study extends the absorptive capacity perspective by showing that a client’s efficiency reinforces its opportunities to absorb knowledge...

...Paris Koumbarakis; Heiko Bergmann; Thierry Volery Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show how self-regulation influences the relationship between nascent entrepreneurial exploitation activities, firm birth and firm abandonment. Design/methodology/approach This study draws from a unique...

...Hai Guo; Jintong Tang; Zelong Wei Using survey data collected from 238 firms in a transition economy, this paper tests a model of firms’ exploration and exploitation competences under which managerial ties promote or constrain opportunity discovery. The paper finds that managerial ties...

...Xiaoping Zhao; Feibo Shao; Chuang Wu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance implications of two major mechanisms for organizational learning (i.e. exploration and exploitation). Exploration refers to firm activities that explore new and novel knowledge, whereas...

... March’s 1991 work on exploitation and exploration has been studied in many different industries. The purpose of this paper is to analyze signals emanating from exploration and exploitation alliances within the pharmaceutical industry context. Specifically, the authors explore market reactions...

...Song Lin; Steven Si Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate exploration and exploitation as antecedents to speed of internationalization in born global firms. Design/methodology/approach By using 150 born global firms in China, the authors demonstrate that the influence...

...@univ-rouen.fr 31 01 2017 14 06 2017 14 12 2017 09 06 2018 12 06 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Exploration Exploitation Organizational ambidexterity The concept of organizational...

...Alberto Ferraris; Gabriele Santoro; Stefano Bresciani; Elias G. Carayannis Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how multinational enterprises (MNEs) manage human resources (HR) in explorative and exploitative alliances in smart city projects (SCPs). Design/methodology/approach...

...Ana M. Ortega; M. Teresa García; M. Valle Santos If, at a theoretical level, Sarasvathy (2001 , p. 255) stated that “decision units of exploration would contain processes of effectuation, whereas causation models would dominate exploitation”, a review of the theoretical approaches used in NPD...

...Muhammad Asif Purpose Ambidexterity is the ability of an organization to balance exploitation and exploration. Ambidextrous organizations perform better in managing productivity-innovation dilemma. Although the literature on ambidexterity has expanded, much less attention has been paid...

... and exploitative learning. Large firms extract more value from ambidextrous learning than small firms. Originality/value This study is the first to identify the mediating role of ambidextrous learning in the relationship between knowledge stock and firm performance and to confirm that firm size moderates...