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The Continuous Innovation Network (CINet) is a global network studying the innovation processes through which the synergistic combination between exploratory and exploitatory activities fosters a synergistic combination of operational effectiveness and strategic flexibility – allowing firms to achieve superior performance. This paper presents the t...
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... doing this, however, CI has maintained a focus on the ambidextrous combination of exploration and exploitation through a continuous cross-disciplinary, cross-functional, and evolutionary process (Corso, 2002), which provides a paradoxical perspective to analyse the tensions characterising the dichotomous nature of exploration and exploitation. In fact, CI is positioned at the intersection of the three aforementioned theoretical lenses (Figure 1), which are not only highly overlapped, but also with boundaries that tend to remain blurred. If further research is necessary to clarify these boundaries, the current interrelatedness is so intense that the isolation of the contributions provided by each stream to the CI literature is not a simple operation (Cantarello et al., 2012(Cantarello et al., , 2010). ...
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... The ability to explore and exploit concurrently is called ambidexterity ( Exploitation describes the capability of an organization to identify and follow opportunities, learn and acquire knowledge, modify abilities and assets for ideal performance, and decrease risks in recent markets (Martini et al., 2013;Wang & Rafiq, 2014). The natural environment has been fluctuating at an ever-increasing rate and complexity in recent years, so businesses are finding that having dynamic capabilities helps them obtain a competitive edge. ...
Behaviour of employee enhancing environmental performance is highlighted by recent research in the field of environmental management. Though green human resource management (GHRM) is vital, its impact on environmental performance (EP) has not received much attention. Furthermore, there has been a noticeable lack of focus on concurrently examining green ambidexterity (GA), green HRM, green behavior (GB), and their combined impact on environmental performance in the lens of Human Capital theory. For understanding the relationship between green GHRM and environmental performance, this study serially mediate green ambidexterity and green behaviour. Responsible leadership (RL)also plays a moderating role in this relationship. For 570 hotels in the sample, a variance-based structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) was employed. According to the findings, GHRM helps staff members become more environmentally conscious and engage in green behaviour, which helps the company’s environmental performance. The outcomes of this research offer valuable insights to the existing literature green ambidexterity and GHRM, along with providing practical insights for managers in hotels.
... The ability to explore and exploit concurrently is called ambidexterity ( Exploitation describes the capability of an organization to identify and follow opportunities, learn and acquire knowledge, modify abilities and assets for ideal performance, and decrease risks in recent markets (Martini et al., 2013;Wang & Rafiq, 2014). The natural environment has been fluctuating at an ever-increasing rate and complexity in recent years, so businesses are finding that having dynamic capabilities helps them obtain a competitive edge. ...
The purpose of this research is to explore the influence of Green HRM (GHRM) on environmental performance (EP). There has been a noticeable lack of focus on concurrently examining green ambidexterity (GA), GHRM, green behavior (GB), and their combined impact on EP in the lens of Human Capital theory. The purpose of this study is to investigate the interrelationship between GHRM and EP through serial mediation of GA and GB with a moderating role of responsible leadership (RL) in the relationship of GHRM and GA. A variance-based structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was applied to 570 sample of hotels. The results indicate that GHRM facilitates the development of green ambidexterity, and green behavior among employees in the way that they contribute to improving EP. The outcomes of this research offer valuable contributions to the existing literature on GHRM and GA, along with providing practical insights for managers in hotels.
... The ability to explore and exploit concurrently is called ambidexterity ( Exploitation describes the capability of an organization to identify and follow opportunities, learn and acquire knowledge, modify abilities and assets for ideal performance, and decrease risks in recent markets (Martini et al., 2013;Wang & Rafiq, 2014). The natural environment has been fluctuating at an ever-increasing rate and complexity in recent years, so businesses are finding that having dynamic capabilities helps them obtain a competitive edge. ...
... The results show that high technology opportunities, patents, learning based on previous experience, accumulated research and development expenditure, and universal knowledge provided by scientific research institutions all increase the sustainability of enterprise innovation activities (Angela et al., 2014). Martini et al. studied the impact of R&D investment on the sustainability of innovation based on the panel data of Italian manufacturing enterprises and found that R&D-based innovation behaviors often have the highest sustainability (Martini et al., 2013). Bas et al., based on data from Luxembourg CIS2006 & 2008, found that organizational innovation is a determinant of the sustainability of innovation, while enterprises with high R&D activities are more inclined to pursue persistent innovation . ...
In today’s rapidly evolving global economy, enterprise persistent innovation is the key to the success of the enterprise, and the inexhaustible power of development can help enterprises in the fierce business competition to obtain competitive advantages and continue to maintain the leading position. This study through the WOS database of SSCI, SCI-E journal library of 1062 English literature review and scientific knowledge map analysis, thus defined the connotation of enterprise persistent innovation and measurement, exploration, and the enterprise persistent innovation research knowledge base and research hotspot and reveals the development of enterprise persistent innovation research. On this basis, the integrated analysis framework of the formation mechanism and effect of enterprise persistent innovation is constructed. The study found that the enterprise persistent innovation is a dynamic and lasting process and ability, involving the accumulation, destruction, and reorganization of innovation, which can be measured from the two aspects of innovation results and process. The knowledge base of enterprise persistent innovation involves fields such as economics, management science, and policy science, and research trends have gone through three stages of development. Factors affecting enterprise persistent innovation include technology, organization, individual, and environment. The integration of enterprise capabilities and resources is an important intermediary in the process of persistent innovation and enterprise strategic management, and the external environment plays a regulatory role in the process of persistent innovation. Enterprise persistent innovation also has a positive impact on economic performance and social development. Finally, this study summarizes the shortcomings of existing studies and presents future research perspectives. This paper serves as a valuable resource for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners seeking to navigate the complex terrain of enterprise persistent innovation in an ever-changing business landscape.
... On the one hand, several contributions have explored the role of leadership and other aspects of paradox management Miron-Spector et al., 2018;Smith, 2014;. On the other hand, some classic dichotomies have been read through the paradox lens, in particular: exploration and exploitation, or ambidexterity (Cunha et al., 2019;Andriopoulos and Lewis, 2010;Martini et al., 2013;Papachroni et al., 2015); financial goal and social responsibilities, or sustainable development (Hahn et al., 2018;Carmine and De Marchi, 2023;Slawinski et al., 2021); collaboration and competition in inter-and intra-firm relationships, or co-opetition (Bengtsson and Raza-Ullah, 2017;Ouyang et al., 2023). ...
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... By leveraging AI-driven insights, companies can make better-informed decisions, react quickly to market changes, and outperform their competitors. The results underscore the importance of continuous innovation and technological adoption in maintaining competitiveness (Brynjolfsson and Mcafee, 2017;Martini et al., 2013). ...
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... The ambidextrous innovation has attracted a lot of interest from the scholarly and managerial community over a period of time (Grover, Purvis, & Segars, 2007). Ambidextrous innovation can be defined as an innovation that balances the innovating of new products and services (Grover et al., 2007), referred to as explorative innovation and develops and improving the existing product and services to meet existing needs, referred to as exploitative innovation (Martini, Laugen, Gastaldi, & Corso, 2013). The recent literature suggests that ambidextrous innovation has helped organizations, especially project teams, gain a competitive advantage by using available in-house and out-house knowledge, competencies and insights (Xie, Gao, Zang, & Meng, 2020). ...
... Exploratory innovation can be defined as a type of ambidextrous innovation that is focused on meeting new kinds of consumer needs and demands by innovating new products and services (Grover et al., 2007). In contrast to exploratory, exploitative innovation is defined as the process of innovation in which the project team develops a product and services to meet existing needs and uses an existing set of knowledge (Martini et al., 2013). The present research has conceptualized that organizational learning (Prieto-Pastor & Martin-Perez, 2015) and innovative organizational culture (Khan & Mir, 2019) can play an active role in helping the firm achieve its ambidextrous innovation capabilities. ...
Purpose
In the era of hyper-competitiveness, firms, especially project-based management structures, have to focus on ideas for both new and existing sets of products and services, i.e. ambidextrous innovation. The ambidextrous innovation can be helpful, but achieving such a level is a problem to be solved. This study aims to yield ambidextrous innovation by using innovative culture and knowledge that has been gained from learning.
Design/methodology/approach
The present research collected data from Saudi Arabian public-sector firms. The data collected is analyzed using the partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM).
Findings
The findings of the study suggest that a range of factors can be operationalized in project-based firms to establish organizational learning and innovation culture. These factors include agile-based project management, leveraging existing innovative capabilities and growth mindset in case of innovative organizational culture and additional factors of agile-based knowledge management along with others in case of organizational learning. The PLS-SEM further concluded that both organizational learning and innovative organizational culture, in turn, help project-based Saudi Arabian public-sector firms to develop their ambidextrous innovation capability.
Originality/value
The PLS-SEM further concluded that both the organizational learning and innovative organizational culture, in turn, help project-based Saudi Arabian public-sector firms to develop their ambidextrous innovation capability.
... A proliferation of ambidexterity studies increased the academic debate on this theme across diverse disciplines and theoretical approaches during the 2010s. 3 In the consolidation stage, conceptual studies proposed theoretical frameworks to understand ambidexterity through a new variety of lenses/views, such as psychology, social anthropology (Moon et al., 2012), contingency management (D' Souza et al., 2017), agency theory (Hiebl et al., 2015), innovation (Martini et al., 2013), entrepreneurship (Bot, 2012), corporate social performance (Hahn et al., 2016), human resource management (Srokes et al., 2015;Kim, 2019), big data (Rialti et al., 2018), conflict management (Martin et al., 2019), and among others. At the same time, empirical studies continued to explore the exploitation and exploration tensions through multi-organizational units (Derbyshire, 2014;Jansen et al., 2012), but new structural and contextual tensions emerged like alignment and adaptiveness in operational systems projects (De Clercq et al., 2013;Tiwana, 2010;Zhou et al., 2018), insourcing and outsourcing in clusters (Ferrary, 2011), design and configurational in multilevel alliances (Zimmermann et al., 2015), and revenue-enhancing and cost-reduction in portfolios (Wassmer et al., 2017). ...
Organizational ambidexterity refers to an organization's ability to perform two tasks equally proficiently. These tasks include efficiency vs. flexibility, adaptability vs. alignment, integration vs. responsiveness, or exploration vs. exploitation. The versatility of the ambidexterity concept allows it to be used to answer multiple research questions from various perspectives. Over the last two decades, research on ambidexterity has grown exponentially, leading to significant insights into conceptualizations, determinants, consequences, operationalization metrics, sophisticated methodologies, and multiple management approaches. However, there is a research gap in technology-oriented or entrepreneurship-oriented journals that discuss multiple ambidexterity tensions or paradoxes along the innovative, entrepreneurial, and managerial process. This special issue addresses this gap by examining ambidexterity as the missing link between entrepreneurship, management, and innovation. The special issue includes five studies that reveal the intersection of tensions between entrepreneurship, innovation, and management faced by different types of organizations across the globe. These studies highlight future research opportunities and implications for different stakeholders.
... To make the app more accessible, it has recently been developed further by Gehl Architects, who has found funding via client projects to tweak the app, adding features that make in-app customization of prompts and annotations possible. Engaging stakeholders like Gehl in the design of the app within an open paradigm of innovation (Chesbrough and Bogers, 2014) has thus already proven effective in leading to ''continuous innovation'' (Martini et al., 2013) of it based on situated needs and experiences with using it. We hope to see more of that in the future. ...
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... The research by Martini et al. (2012) sought to understand the innovation processes through which the synergistic combinations between exploration and exploitation activities promote a synergistic combination of operational effectiveness and strategic flexibility, allowing companies to achieve superior performance. Thus, there is the perception that the research developed since 2014 seeks to understand the relationship between innovation and financial performance better, while research developed between 2000 and 2010 focused on the impact of innovation on the profitability of organizations. ...
Innovation enables organizations to invest in processes or products that increase their competitive advantage in the market. Thus, this research aims to conduct a bibliometric mapping of scientific production on Innovation Exploitation (incremental innovation) and Innovation Exploration (radical innovation), focusing on scientific articles published in journals in business, administration, accounting, and economics. However, a bibliometric analysis of the publications indexed in the Scopus database from 1995 to 2022 was performed and operationalized using RStudio’s Biblioshiny software. The search was performed by the keywords “Innovation Exploitation”, “Innovation Exploration”, and “Innovation Ambidexterity”, in the fields title, abstract, and keywords. After the filtration processes, the final sample comprised 746 scientific articles. The results of this research present an evolution of the theme over the years. In 1995, innovation was considered the creation or remodeling of products. In contrast, in 2020, innovation was defined as radical or incremental, in which the manager uses innovation as a strategy to increase sales and decreases production costs with the help of technology. Most publications (42.35%) occur after 2017, making clear the importance of the topic in recent years. Between 1995 and 2000, only 22 articles were published, and between 2017 and 2022, there were 408 studies. It was found that the author with the highest number of citations is American, and the country with the highest number of publications is the United States. However, the author with the highest number of publications is Italian, as well as the largest collaboration network, with Italy being the third country with the highest number of publications. Therefore, this study can be a starting point for future research or those interested in the topic.
