Exploration and Exploitation in Latin American Firms: The Determinants of Organizational Ambidexterity and The Country Effect

Abstract: In this article, we explore the determinants of organizational ambidexterity across Latin American countries -Chile, Ecuador, and Peru- from innovation surveys of 2,786 manufacturing companies. The study introduces valuable information on ambidextrous organizations in emerging economies, c...

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Autores principales:	Acevedo,Juan, Díaz-Molina,Iván
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios 2019
Materias:	ambidexterity innovation absorptive capacity country environment emerging economies
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0718-272420190004000062020-01-23Exploration and Exploitation in Latin American Firms: The Determinants of Organizational Ambidexterity and The Country EffectAcevedo,JuanDíaz-Molina,Iván ambidexterity innovation absorptive capacity country environment emerging economies Abstract: In this article, we explore the determinants of organizational ambidexterity across Latin American countries -Chile, Ecuador, and Peru- from innovation surveys of 2,786 manufacturing companies. The study introduces valuable information on ambidextrous organizations in emerging economies, contrasting to traditional literature frequently focusing on developed countries. Findings confirm the importance to measure ambidexterity in a multidimensional perspective, relating exploration to radical innovation, and breaking down exploitation into incremental exploitation, related to incremental innovation and repetitive exploitation related to operational efficiency. This work also finds that higher GDP per capita relates to higher exploration and exploitation ability of firms and supported our hypotheses that political and economic uncertainty of each country impact on organizational ambidexterity. Additionally, we expand on Diaz-Molina´s model (2018), on the relationship between strategic and operational absorptive capacity on ambidexterity by validating his findings across several countries and uncovering a positive interaction term between strategic and operational absorptive capacity when both impact on ambidexterity.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y NegociosJournal of technology management & innovation v.14 n.4 20192019-12-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-27242019000400006en10.4067/S0718-27242019000400006
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spellingShingle	ambidexterity innovation absorptive capacity country environment emerging economies Acevedo,Juan Díaz-Molina,Iván Exploration and Exploitation in Latin American Firms: The Determinants of Organizational Ambidexterity and The Country Effect
description	Abstract: In this article, we explore the determinants of organizational ambidexterity across Latin American countries -Chile, Ecuador, and Peru- from innovation surveys of 2,786 manufacturing companies. The study introduces valuable information on ambidextrous organizations in emerging economies, contrasting to traditional literature frequently focusing on developed countries. Findings confirm the importance to measure ambidexterity in a multidimensional perspective, relating exploration to radical innovation, and breaking down exploitation into incremental exploitation, related to incremental innovation and repetitive exploitation related to operational efficiency. This work also finds that higher GDP per capita relates to higher exploration and exploitation ability of firms and supported our hypotheses that political and economic uncertainty of each country impact on organizational ambidexterity. Additionally, we expand on Diaz-Molina´s model (2018), on the relationship between strategic and operational absorptive capacity on ambidexterity by validating his findings across several countries and uncovering a positive interaction term between strategic and operational absorptive capacity when both impact on ambidexterity.
author	Acevedo,Juan Díaz-Molina,Iván
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title	Exploration and Exploitation in Latin American Firms: The Determinants of Organizational Ambidexterity and The Country Effect
title_short	Exploration and Exploitation in Latin American Firms: The Determinants of Organizational Ambidexterity and The Country Effect
title_full	Exploration and Exploitation in Latin American Firms: The Determinants of Organizational Ambidexterity and The Country Effect
title_fullStr	Exploration and Exploitation in Latin American Firms: The Determinants of Organizational Ambidexterity and The Country Effect
title_full_unstemmed	Exploration and Exploitation in Latin American Firms: The Determinants of Organizational Ambidexterity and The Country Effect
title_sort	exploration and exploitation in latin american firms: the determinants of organizational ambidexterity and the country effect
publisher	Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios
publishDate	2019
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Exploration and Exploitation in Latin American Firms: The Determinants of Organizational Ambidexterity and The Country Effect

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