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Setting The Stage For Individual Ambidexterity In Organizations: The Effects Of Context And Individual Regulatory Mode On Explorative And Exploitative Behavior, Fernando Garcia
Doctor of Business Administration Dissertations
In response to changing customer demands and increasing competition, companies must balance the need to exploit their current capabilities with the need to explore new capabilities to sustain long-term success. Balancing this duality is at the core of the ambidexterity concept. While ambidexterity research mostly has focused at the firm level of analysis, recent literature indicates the need to analyze the concept at the individual level to increase our understanding of where ambidexterity takes place and how it emerges from context. Understanding the dynamics of the ambidexterity phenomenon at its most basic level will provide organizations with knowledge on how …