Leadership of managers and sharing an integrated vision with the CEO of the organization |
… capacity of the CEO of the organization to have access to timely, valuable and diversified information is the key to avoid polarized management attention for both exploitation and exploration. … CEO develops this capacity through its networks of connections that act as a channel of valuable information and resources through the actors involved. |
Collins and Clark (2003Collins, C. J., & Clark, K. D. (2003). Strategic human resource practices, top management team social networks, and firm performance: The role of human resource practices in creating organizational competitive advantage. Academy of Management Journal, 46(6), 740-751. https://doi.org/10.2307/30040665 https://doi.org/10.2307/30040665...
); Gibson and Birkinshaw (2004Gibson, C. B., & Birkinshaw, J. (2004). The Antecedents, consequences, and mediating role of organizational ambidexterity. Academy of Management Journal, 47(2), 209-226. https://doi.org/10.5465/20159573 https://doi.org/10.5465/20159573...
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Integration between the team of the organization’s senior management and the CEO |
… organizations with senior management teams that share the same vision and have “contingency rewards”1 to the members of these teams are associated with high levels of innovation through exploitation and exploration. … a contradictory view of exploitation and exploration within senior management teams may involve paradoxical cognitive processes both with the CEO and in actions among the entire senior management team, evidencing the need for connection networks. |
Gibson and Birkinshaw (2004Gibson, C. B., & Birkinshaw, J. (2004). The Antecedents, consequences, and mediating role of organizational ambidexterity. Academy of Management Journal, 47(2), 209-226. https://doi.org/10.5465/20159573 https://doi.org/10.5465/20159573...
); Jansen, George, Bosch and Volberda (2008Jansen, J. J. P., George, G., Bosch, F. A. J. Van Den, & Volberda, H. W. (2008). Senior team attributes and organizational ambidexterity: The moderating role of transformational leadership. Journal of Management Studies, 45(5), 982-1007. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2008.00775.x https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2008...
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Transformational leadership by the CEO |
Transformational leadership was observed as one of the main factors for innovation in organizations. Transformational leadership aims to engage individuals in search of bonds that increase the level of motivation of those led. Leadership’s empowerment2 and the leader’s commitment to continuous improvement (CI) and innovation are associated with contextual ambidexterity at the organizational unit level. |
Avolio, Bass and Jung (1999Avolio, B. J., Bass, B. M., & Jung, D. I. (1999). Re-examining the components of transformational and transactional leadership using the multifactor leadership questionnaire. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 72(4), 441-462. https://doi.org/10.1348/096317999166789 https://doi.org/10.1348/096317999166789...
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); Assen (2019Assen, M. F. van. (2019). Empowering leadership and contextual ambidexterity - The mediating role of committed leadership for continuous improvement. European Management Journal, 38(3), 435-449. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2019.12.002 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2019.12.00...
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Role of CEO cognition |
CEO goals orientation is conceptualized as motivations that shape what individuals generally seek to accomplish when engaging in challenging tasks. … “goal orientations describe CEOs’ deeper motivation, cognition, and values, through which they evaluate the external environment and take specific decisions and actions when leading their firms to adopt complex strategic orientations such as an ambidextrous orientation” (Mammassis & Kostopoulos, 2019Mammassis, C. S., & Kostopoulos, K. C. (2019). CEO goal orientations, environmental dynamism and organizational ambidexterity: An investigation in SMEs. European Management Journal, 37(5), 577-588. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2019.08.012 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2019.08.01...
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Mammassis and Kostopoulos (2019Mammassis, C. S., & Kostopoulos, K. C. (2019). CEO goal orientations, environmental dynamism and organizational ambidexterity: An investigation in SMEs. European Management Journal, 37(5), 577-588. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2019.08.012 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2019.08.01...
); Porac and Thomas (2002Porac, J. F., & Thomas, H. (2002). Managing cognition and strategy: Issues, trends and future directions. In Handbook of Strategy and Management (pp. 165-181). Londron, UK: Sage Publications. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781848608313.n8 http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781848608313....
); Pryor, Holmes, Webb and Liguori (2019Pryor, C., Holmes, R. M., Webb, J. W., & Liguori, E. W. (2019). Top executive goal orientations’ effects on environmental scanning and performance: Differences between founders and nonfounders. Journal of Management, 45(5), 1958-1986. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206317737354 https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206317737354...
); Wilms, Winnen and Lanwehr (2019Wilms, R., Winnen, L. A., & Lanwehr, R. (2019). Top Managers’ cognition facilitate organisational ambidexterity: The mediating role of cognitive processes. European Management Journal, 37(5), 589-600. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2019.03.006 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2019.03.00...
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Dynamism of the environment |
... different types of CEO objective guidelines (learning, approach, and prevention) can facilitate or hinder ambidexterity, and that these effects are conditioned by the level of dynamism3 of the environment to which the organization is situated. The moderating effect of the dynamics of the environment was observed as a condition of the effectiveness of the top management team (TMT - including CEO and senior executives) in promoting the balance between exploitation and exploration. … Environmental munificence can represent the opportunities and availability of resources that organizations are subject to, resources that both exploitation and exploration require. |
Fourné, Rosenbusch, Heyden and Jansen (2019Fourné, S. P. L., Rosenbusch, N., Heyden, M. L. M., & Jansen, J. J. P. (2019). Structural and contextual approaches to ambidexterity: A meta-analysis of organizational and environmental contingencies. European Management Journal, 37(5), 564-576. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2019.04.002 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2019.04.00...
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); Halevi, Carmeli and Brueller (2015Halevi, M. Y., Carmeli, A., & Brueller, N. N. (2015). Ambidexterity in SBUs: TMT Behavioral Integration and Environmental Dynamism. Human Resource Management, 54(May), s223-s238. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.21665 https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.21665...
); Mammassis and Kostopoulos (2019Mammassis, C. S., & Kostopoulos, K. C. (2019). CEO goal orientations, environmental dynamism and organizational ambidexterity: An investigation in SMEs. European Management Journal, 37(5), 577-588. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2019.08.012 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2019.08.01...
); Nadkarni and Chen (2014Nadkarni, S., & Chen, J. (2014). Bridging yesterday, today, and tomorrow: CEO temporal focus, environmental dynamism, and rate of new product introduction. Academy of Management Journal, 57(6), 1810-1833. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2011.0401 https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2011.0401...
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