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Heracleous, Loizos Th., Yniguez, Carlos and Gonzalez, Steven A. (2019) Ambidexterity as historically embedded process : evidence from NASA, 1958-2016. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 55 (2). pp. 161-189. doi:10.1177/0021886318812122
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0021886318812122
Abstract
Even though the growing ambidexterity literature has delivered useful insights, this theme has been researched largely in static and a-contextual terms, without adequate attention to how an organization’s history and context can shape its present. In this paper we employ NASA as an in-depth case study to trace how its historical trajectory has shaped its current propensity to be ambidextrous. Our study reveals organizational ambidexterity as a path-dependent, contingent process rather than something necessarily achievable via the more generic prescriptions of structural, temporal or contextual ambidexterity models.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Strategy & International Business Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Organizational resilience, Organizational change, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Case studies | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Applied Behavioral Science | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications, Inc. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0021-8863 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 June 2019 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 55 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 161-189 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/0021886318812122 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Publisher Statement: | Heracleous, L., Yniguez, C., & Gonzalez, S. A. (2018). Ambidexterity as Historically Embedded Process: Evidence From NASA, 1958 to 2016. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021886318812122. © The Author(s) 2018. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. | ||||||||
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