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Achieving Organizational Ambidexterity : Understanding and explaining ambidextrous organizations

, 2010
Background: Responding to fast technological and environmental changes brings about challenges and paradoxes for companies that should be resolved in order to survive long-term and to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. Ambidexterity is considered a solution to organizational paradoxes. Aim: The purpose of this research is to explore how firms
Mirzataghi Chaharmahali, Sara, Amir Siadat, Seyed   +1 more
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How Do SMEs Respond to Deglobalization? Insights from Italian SMEs in the Interwar Period (1936–1943)

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates how small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) respond to deglobalization and economic nationalism, using historical evidence from fascist Italy, a period of autarky and restricted international trade. While prior research has focused primarily on larger firms, especially multinational enterprises (MNEs), the strategic ...
Valeria Giacomin, Francesco Romagnoli
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge Resources, Exploration, and Exploitation: A New Perspective on the Interplay Between Innovation and Application [PDF]

Knowledge resources are the fundamental ingredients used in exploration and exploitation and an overlooked source of distinction and tension between these two processes.
Cynthia A. Lengnick-Hall, Robert J. Griffith   +1 more
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How Are Skills Changing with Digital Technologies? Clarifying Boundary Conditions in Management Research

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article contributes to discussions about the future of work by providing a systematic review of the broad yet fragmented management literature on how skills are changing with digital technologies (DTs). Our aim was to understand the nature of scholarly engagement with this relationship to inform a future research agenda.
Damian Grimshaw, Marcela Miozzo
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Disentangling the Leadership Theory Jungle: A Reconciliation of Bright and Dark Side Leadership Theories

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The literature on the relationship between leader behaviours and effectiveness is a jungle of complementary yet often conflicting leadership theories that perplexes researchers and practitioners alike, as indicated by various theories of bright and dark side leadership (i.e., leader behaviours reflecting widely considered positive and negative
Jianyun Tang, Mary Crossan
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Kant on Bullshit Jobs—Mere Means and True Means

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs, there has recently been academic and public discussion about useless work. Immanuel Kant maintains that we ought to be means for others and that there is a duty to be useful. Graeber and Kant are both concerned with a form of harm often overlooked in contemporary ethics and political philosophy, namely,
Martin Sticker
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When Do Sustainability Tensions Harm or Benefit Innovation Portfolios? A Paradoxical Perspective

Journal of Product Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The coexistence of a competitive and sustainability strategy often introduces tensions within organizations. These tensions, if not appropriately managed, can lead to defensiveness and destruction, while they also have the potential to drive creativity and foster sustainability.
Jadena Bechtel, Luca Sabini, Alexander Kock   +2 more
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Balancing the Cognitive Highwire: The Effect of CEO–TMT Shared Cognition on Radical Innovation and Innovation Efficiency

Journal of Product Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Radical innovation and innovation efficiency are important for a firm's competitive advantage. Past research has established that the firm's upper echelons disproportionately contribute to the radicalness and efficiency of innovation efforts.
David Lohmar, Christopher Albert Sabel, Stephan Nüesch   +2 more
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The mediating role of organizational commitment in the relationship between head nurses' ambidextrous leadership and team performance. [PDF]

BMC Nurs
Wang Y, Wang Y, Wang Z.
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Exploring the Effect of Workarounds in Ambidextrous Organizations [PDF]

, 2018
Organizations are challenged to achieve a trade-off between two opposing modes of innovation - exploration and exploitation. To overcome the challenge, organizational members modify and adapt processes and technologies in the form of workarounds to achieve exploratory goals.
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