Journal
JOURNAL OF APPLIED BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
Volume 51, Issue 1, Pages 71-93Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0021886314553101
Keywords
ambidexterity; paradox; exploration; exploitation
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The organizational ambidexterity literature conceptualizes exploration and exploitation as conflicting activities, and proposes separation-oriented approaches to accomplish ambidexterity; namely, structural and temporal separation. We argue that viewing ambidexterity from the lens of paradox theory enables us to move beyond separation-oriented prescriptions toward synthesis or transcendence of paradoxical poles; as well as toward longitudinal explorations of how paradoxical poles dynamically interrelate over time. In this way, the conceptual repertoire of ambidexterity theory is enriched and empirical research can more closely and pragmatically track practice.
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