Balancing exploration and exploitation is a critical challenge that is particularly difficult for
smaller, nascent organizations that lack the resources, capabilities, and experience …

Although ambidexterity is usually cited as a mean to achieve above average sustainable
performance, theory indicates that due to trade-offs between exploitation and exploration at …

Research Summary Organizational ambidexterity reflects an organization's capacity to
balance the pursuit of exploration and exploitation. Although the role of time has been …

Significant ambiguity remains in the literature regarding the conceptualization of
organizational ambidexterity. We unpack this construct into one with two dimensions we …

Prior studies have emphasized that structural attributes are crucial to simultaneously
pursuing exploration and exploitation, yet our understanding of antecedents of ambidexterity …

Although ambidexterity is crucial for a firm's long-term success, existing literature offers
conflicting views regarding the relationship between exploitation and exploration and thus …

Prior research on ambidexterity has limited its concern to balancing exploration and
exploitation via particular modes of operation. Acknowledging the interplay of tendencies to …

Research in marketing and other organizational domains shows that the ambidexterity–firm
performance relationship is elusive, and high levels of both exploitation and exploration may …

Sustaining success requires the integration of the contradicting aims of short-term efficiency
and long-term innovation. Coupling exploitation and exploration is therefore a major …

We study the evolution of firms' exploration–exploitation allocations and their long-term
performance outcomes. Extending current ambidexterity theory, we suggest that not only …