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Entrepreneurship (Subject) / Exploratory Innovation, Exploitative Innovation, and Performance: Effects of Org (Lesson)
- Topic of the paper Successful organizations need to be ambidextrous—exploring new products and services for emerging markets while exploiting current competences aimed at existing customers and markets (the ability to pursue exploratory and exploitative innovation simultaneously).
- The higher the local environmental dynamism and competitiveness, the higher a unit’s level of ambidexterity (i.e., the level of exploratory and exploitative innovations) The article hypothesizes that organizational units that operate in dynamically competitive environments simultaneously pursue both types of innovations. They become ambidextrous and concurrently develop both exploratory and exploitative innovations to respond to contradictory demands from environmental dynamism and competitiveness.