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The Simultaneous Pursuit Of Exploitation And Exploration In A Small Owner-Managed Service Firm, Dawn Wade
The Simultaneous Pursuit Of Exploitation And Exploration In A Small Owner-Managed Service Firm, Dawn Wade
Business Administration Dissertations
Small owner-managed service firms must have the ability to create thoughtful and intriguing ideas to satisfy the needs of their clients. These firms use a diversified operating model which requires each project to be unique, which in turn requires an innovative strategy that is difficult to maintain. These firms need to exploit their current base by being creative and making each solution better than the last while also creating strategies to attract new clients. To satisfy both needs, service firms wanting both incremental and radical change must be able to simultaneously seek out new solutions. This type of dual approach …
Achieving Contextual Ambidexterity Through The Implementation Of High Performance Work Systems (Hpws), Alexandro F. Armour
Achieving Contextual Ambidexterity Through The Implementation Of High Performance Work Systems (Hpws), Alexandro F. Armour
Business Administration Dissertations
Small information technology and management consulting businesses face increasingly contradictory strategic choices as they develop products and services for the marketplace. Building contextual ambidexterity is essential to the survival of small businesses as they seek to attain a desired balance of alignment and adaptability. Human Resource Management practices facilitate the development of ambidexterity within individuals thereby facilitating ambidexterity of the organization as a whole. Studies suggest that in order for an organization to be ambidextrous, its human resource management function also needs to ambidextrous. High-performance work systems are human resource practices designed to enhance the ability, motivation, and opportunity of …
Managing The Connections: A Case Study Of Managerial Interventions And Contextual Ambidexterity, Richard F. Read
Managing The Connections: A Case Study Of Managerial Interventions And Contextual Ambidexterity, Richard F. Read
Business Administration Dissertations
Business organizations rely on exploitation and efficiency to provide short-term results and on exploration and innovation for their future viability. The ability to simultaneously exploit and explore has been termed organizational ambidexterity. Front-line managers who are able to encourage both exploitation and exploration from their employees should therefore be quite successful, but this is not an easy task. Managerial interventions seek to align the employees’ interests with the manager’s interests and therefore can be perceived as more controlling than enabling, thereby negatively impacting ambidexterity. This case study uses agency theory as a theoretical lens to understand managerial interventions that could …