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Structural ambidexterity and competency traps : insights from Xerox PARC
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Heracleous, Loizos Th., Papachroni, A., Andriopoulos, C. and Gotsi, M. (2017) Structural ambidexterity and competency traps : insights from Xerox PARC. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 117 . pp. 327-338. doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2016.11.014 ISSN 0040-1625.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2016.11.014
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 behavioural 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. Our findings extend understanding of organizational ambidexterity as a dynamic capability, in particular how competency traps can severely compromise ambidexterity; and how network-like effects can adversely shape intra-firm dynamics.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Organizational effectiveness, Xerox Corporation. Palo Alto Research Center | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | ||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier Science BV | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0040-1625 | ||||||||
Official Date: | April 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 117 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 327-338 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.techfore.2016.11.014 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 8 November 2016 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 June 2018 |
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