Managing strategic contradictions: A resource allocation mechanism for balancing ambidextrous innovation

Wen, Zhang; Liu, Zhiying; Shi, Xing; Chen, Jiumei

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2020.106277

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“…In addition, companies must deal with the paradox of ambidexterity by proposing innovation strategies that aim both to exploit companies' current knowledge and skills and to explore new ones to improve short-and long-term performance (Benner and Tushman, 2003;Voss and Voss, 2013). Therefore, the balance of EXPR and EXPI is an important issue that cannot be ignored (Li et al, 2018;Zhang et al, 2020;Zheng et al, 2016).…”

Section: Ambidextrous Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Inclusive leadership, ambidextrous innovation and organizational performance: the moderating role of environment uncertainty

Gong

Liu

Rong

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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to explore how inclusive leadership promotes organizational performance through ambidextrous innovation (i.e. exploratory and exploitative innovation). Moreover, the authors examine the moderating role of environmental uncertainty in the relationship between inclusive leadership and ambidextrous innovation.Design/methodology/approachThis study conducted a questionnaire survey of high-tech enterprises in China and obtained 325 useable samples. The hypotheses were tested using latent path analysis and ordinary least squares regression.FindingsThe results indicate that exploratory and exploitative innovations mediate the relationship between inclusive leadership and organizational performance. Moreover, environmental uncertainty positively moderated the relationship between inclusive leadership and exploitative innovation.Practical implicationsManagers should value the critical role of inclusive leadership in promoting exploratory and exploitative innovation, which in turn improves organizational performance. Meanwhile, managers need to pay attention to the risk caused by environmental uncertainty.Originality/valueThis paper extends the influence of inclusive leadership on innovation from the individual level to the organizational level and reveals the influence mechanism of inclusive leadership on organizational performance. In addition, this study supplements the knowledge regarding the boundary conditions under which the influence of inclusive leadership is strengthened or weakened.

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Section: Ambidextrous Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Inclusive leadership, ambidextrous innovation and organizational performance: the moderating role of environment uncertainty

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Rong

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“…As the motive force of organizational activities, the dilemma of how exploratory innovation coexists with exploitative innovation brought a climax to the research on ambidextrous ability. With the deepening of relevant research, ambidexterity intersects with technological innovation, organizational learning, strategic management, etc., and its connotation expands to the leadership field [ 22 , 23 , 24 ]. Bass [ 25 ] points out that transformational leadership inspires the creativity of employees through idealized charisma and identifies opportunities in the external environment.…”

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Examining How Ambidextrous Leadership Relates to Affective Commitment and Workplace Deviance Behavior of Employees: The Moderating Role of Supervisor–Subordinate Exchange Guanxi

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How to regulate employee conduct and engage them in high performance works actively and continuously has always been the important topic for organizations. Based on affective events theory and social exchange theory, a moderated mediating model was constructed with the affective commitment as mediator and the supervisor–subordinate exchange guanxi as moderator. Regression analyses and conditional indirect effects were tested by SPSS and PROCESS with 374 matched supervisor–subordinate pairs. The paper explores the moderated mechanism of supervisor-subordinate guanxi to the chain of “ambidextrous leadership–employee’s affective commitment–workplace deviance behavior.” The results showed that the affective commitment mediated the effect between ambidextrous leadership and employees’ workplace deviance behavior, and supervisor–subordinate exchange guanxi moderated the relationship between ambidextrous leadership and employees’ workplace deviance behavior but also moderated the mediating effect of affective commitment. The results have significances to improve human resource management practices and reduce the workplace deviance behavior of employees.

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“…Besides, Xing et al (2010) discussed the risk compensation for profit distribution in the industrial technology innovation. Other researchers (Deligianni et al, 2019;Xu and Zhang, 2016;Zhang et al, 2020) also did similar discussion.…”

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Incentive strategy about technology innovation based on knowledge ecological coupling in strategic emerging industry

Long

Liu

2021

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to solve the problem of low efficiency on knowledge resources allocation in the strategic emerging industry (SEI), an incentive model of technology innovation based on knowledge ecological coupling is designed.Design/methodology/approachFirst, a principal–agent model of knowledge inputs and a knowledge ecological coupling model based on an improved Lotka–Volterra model are constructed. In addition, a numerical example about Chongqing Yongchuan industrial park, the emulation analysis and the associated discussions are conducted to analyze the equilibriums of principal–agent in different knowledge inputs. Further, the paper analyzes the evolutionary equilibrium in knowledge ecological coupling and reveals the dual adjustments of the node organization on knowledge inputs.FindingsThus, this paper shows that by establishing the relationships of knowledge ecological coupling based on “mutualism and commensalism,” node organization raises the level of knowledge inputs; an incentive mode of “knowledge ecological coupling relationship + technology innovation chain” is conductive to substantially improving the efficiency of knowledge resource allocation, and to stimulate the vitality of node organization for technology innovation in the strategic emerging industry (SEI).Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the extant researches in two ways. First, this paper reveals the dual adjustments of the node organizations in inputting knowledge, which broadens the vision and borders of the researches on traditional knowledge management. The methods of the traditional principal–agent model and the knowledge input/output profit model are also expanded. Second, this paper verifies that applying the mode of “knowledge ecological coupling relationship + technology innovation chain” in practice is conducive to enhancing the efficiency of the cross-organizational knowledge allocation in the strategic emerging industry (SEI).

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Managing strategic contradictions: A resource allocation mechanism for balancing ambidextrous innovation

Cited by 17 publications

References 30 publications

Inclusive leadership, ambidextrous innovation and organizational performance: the moderating role of environment uncertainty

Inclusive leadership, ambidextrous innovation and organizational performance: the moderating role of environment uncertainty

Examining How Ambidextrous Leadership Relates to Affective Commitment and Workplace Deviance Behavior of Employees: The Moderating Role of Supervisor–Subordinate Exchange Guanxi

Incentive strategy about technology innovation based on knowledge ecological coupling in strategic emerging industry

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