... (e.g. March, 1991 ; He and Wong, 2004). Exploratory learning involves searching for new opportunities and pursuing new knowledge, while exploitative learning represents utilisation of the existing knowledge to improve existing matters (March, 1991). Balancing of exploration and exploitation...

... processes, and further provides a framework capable of facilitating the empirical testing of this nexus. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Absorptive capacity Transformative learning Exploitative learning Exploratory learning Modern organisations rely increasingly on external...