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Organizational Ambidexterity And Not-For-Profit Financial Performance, Timothy Michael Madden
Organizational Ambidexterity And Not-For-Profit Financial Performance, Timothy Michael Madden
Doctoral Dissertations
The purpose of this dissertation is to extend the concept of organizational ambidexterity (OA) into the domain of not-for-profit (NFP) organizations. These organizations are subject to many of the same demands as their for-profit counterparts, yet research has not been conducted on how NFPs manage the competing pressures of refining existing routines for efficiency with the need to grow and innovate. This dissertation includes two portions: a quantitative analysis of a large NFP-rating agency dataset and qualitative interviews with executive directors and managers from within the food banking industry to identify the processes in use at a sample of ambidextrous …