Organizational ambidexterity, open innovation and innovation outputs: How do followers and low-flyer EU countries innovate?

This study analyses the role played by organizational ambidexterity and open innovation in innovation outputs,considering business units with different levels of technological intensity(medium-high and high tech,and medium-low and low tech)for countries with different inno-vation profiles.The countries considered in this paper are i)Estonia and Slovenia as innovation followers;i)Slovakia,Hungary,Spain,Czech Republic,Italy,Portugal,Norway,and Croatia as moderate innovators;and ii)Bulgaria,Lithuania and Romania as modest innovators.In the empirical approach,the research hypotheses arise from the literature review and are tested using secondary data collected from the Community Innovation Survey(CIS)201o.The conceptual model is tested using the logistic regression method,which indicates suitable accuracy and reliability for empirical testing purposes.The evidence reveals that for innovation followers,ambidexterity has a greater influence on the practice of eco-innovation,marketing innovation,and product innovation.For moderate innovators,ambidexterity has a greater influence on the practice of product innovation,process innovation,and eco-innovation.Concerning modest in-novators,ambidexterity has a greater influence on the practice of product innovation,process innovation,and eco-innovation.With regard to open innovation,for innovation followers,this has a negative influence on product innovation in medium-high and high-tech companies.For moderate innovators,open innovation has a greater influence in process,organizational,and eco-innovation.In the case of modest innovators,open innovation is more significant for innovation outputs in product,organizational,and marketing innovation.Size is not always positively related to innovation outputs.

Applying Organizational Ambidexterity in strategic management under a“VUCA”environment:Evidence from high tech companies in China

High tech organizations confront dual demands of exploration and exploitation,particularly in today’s competitive environment marked by a trend of volatility,uncertainty,complexity,and ambiguity.Although there is general consensus about the relationship between ambidexterity and firm performance,few studies have probed into the mechanism of how it is applied in the strategic management process.Considering the premise of environmental change,this research considers a multilevel perspective on the nature of organizational ambidexterity and its functioning in the whole strategic management process.Through a comparative case study of the two most famous high tech companies in China,a model is provided to reflect the functioning of organizational ambidexterity where a cognitive pattern of top management teamsplays a critical role in the ability that the organizations demonstrate.This research also contributes to the literature of entrepreneurship by extending innovation from a demand-side perspective,where the core of product/market exploration/exploitation activities could be expanded into customer value creation.Undertaking a careful analysis of the mechanism of organizational ambidexterity,this research sheds new light on the literature of strategic management that operates in a more turbulent environment.

Organizational Ambidexterity and Innovation Performance： The Moderating Effect of Entrepreneurial Orientation

The influence of organizational ambidexterity on innovation and the growth of enterprises has gradually become an important research topic in the field of strategic management and organization theory. This paper builds up a theoretical framework of the relationship between organizational ambidexterity and innovation performance with regards to corporate entrepreneurship orientation. We select 175 companies from high and new technology industries in China＇s three large cities, Beijing, Tianjin and Dalian, as samples to carry out an empirical test. We find that the balance and complement of organizational ambidexterity are positively correlated with the innovation performance of enterprises; a corporate entrepreneurial orientation has a significantly moderating effect on the relationship between the balance dimension of organizational ambidexterity and innovation performance, yet it has no significant positive moderating effect on the relationship between the combined dimension oforganizational ambidexterity and innovation performance.