The role of ambidexterity in managing buyer–supplier relationships: The Toyota case

K Aoki, M Wilhelm - Organization Science, 2017 - pubsonline.informs.org
Most ambidexterity theories deal with managing exploration–exploitation trade-offs among
business units within firms or between alliance partners, but these theories remain yet to be …

Ambidextrous governance in supply chains: The impact on innovation and cost performance

C Blome, T Schoenherr… - Journal of Supply Chain …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Ambidexterity has been gaining attention among supply chain scholars due to its potential
for overcoming trade‐offs. Associated with these complexities is the choice of an appropriate …

Creating ambidexterity by integrating and balancing structurally separate interorganizational partnerships

OP Kauppila - Strategic organization, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent research indicates that interorganizational partnerships represent a potentially
important resource for the development of ambidexterity. However, little is known about how …

How purchasing departments facilitate organizational ambidexterity

PH Andersen, C Ellegaard, H Kragh - Production planning & …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Companies must pursue both exploration and exploitation of supplier's knowledge in
increasingly competitive and complex production environments. This has been referred to as …

Micro-foundations of organizational ambidexterity in the context of cross-border mergers and acquisitions

P Hughes, M Hughes, P Stokes, H Lee… - … Forecasting and Social …, 2020 - Elsevier
Micro-foundational approaches can enable firms to develop organizational ambidexterity,
which is critical to long-term prosperity. However, to date, few studies have examined how …

The performance consequences of ambidexterity in strategic alliance formations: Empirical investigation and computational theorizing

Z Lin, H Yang, I Demirkan - Management science, 2007 - pubsonline.informs.org
Although alliance studies have generally favored an ambidextrous approach between
exploration and exploitation, they tend to overlook a firm's characteristics, its industry …

Ambidexterity under scrutiny: Exploration and exploitation via internal organization, alliances, and acquisitions

U Stettner, D Lavie - Strategic management journal, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Prior research on ambidexterity has limited its concern to balancing exploration and
exploitation via particular modes of operation. Acknowledging the interplay of tendencies to …

Exploration and exploitation within supply networks: examining purchasing ambidexterity and its multiple performance implications

J Gualandris, H Legenvre… - International Journal of …, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce and define the concept of purchasing
ambidexterity in terms of two dimensions: balance dimension and combined dimension. The …

Relational resources for innovation ambidexterity within coopetitive relationships: the contingent role of managerial ambidexterity

C Seepana, A Paulraj, P Smart - International Journal of Operations & …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose While the performance benefits of relational resources and managerial
ambidexterity have been widely discussed in coopetition literature, there is only limited …

The asymmetric moderating role of market orientation on the ambidexterity–firm performance relationship for prospectors and defenders

B Menguc, S Auh - Industrial Marketing Management, 2008 - Elsevier
Drawing on the resource-based view of the firm and, in particular, the capabilities
perspective of firm performance, the authors examine the relationship between …