Explore with Strangers, Exploit with Friends: Organizational Ambidexterity and Networks in Successful Technology Commercialization

This dissertation seeks to relieve theoretical tension between organizational ambidexterity and network perspectives by developing a contingent model of firm-level exploration and exploitation. The central proposition of this model is firms need to both effectively explore and exploit to succeed but...

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Main Author: Earle, Andrew
Other Authors: Russo, Michael
Language:en_US
Published: University of Oregon 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1794/13413