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Heracleous, L., Papachroni, A., Andriopoulos, C. & Gotsi, M. 2016. Forthcoming, Technological Forecasting and Social Change STRUCTURAL AMBIDEXTERITY AND COMPETENCY TRAPS: INSIGHTS FROM XEROX PARC. ABSTRACT. We investigate the organizational dysfunctions that can interfere with the implementation of STRUCTURAL AMBIDEXTERITY as a dynamic capability. We find that these dysfunctions give rise to COMPETENCY traps characterized by interlinked cognitive, organizational and behavioral dimensions, that can severely compromise STRUCTURAL AMBIDEXTERITY . Further, from the perspective of network AMBIDEXTERITY , we also find that the inventions of the explorative unit can be treated as external to the focal organization, mirroring the dynamics of portfolio resources found in the context of strategic alliances.
ambidexterity are conceptually driven by March (1991: 71) who described exploration and exploitation as two fundamentally different activities, with exploitation associated with “refinement, efficiency, selection and implementation” and exploration with “search, variation,
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