Balancing Exploitation and Exploration Organizational Antecedents and Performance Effects of Innovation Strategies

Recent case studies indicated that competing successfully in the present while simultaneously creating appropriate strategic options for the future is one of the toughest managerial challenges for established organizations. Patrick Schulze addresses this issue by investigating the performance effect...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schulze, Patrick
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wiesbaden Gabler Verlag 2009, 2009
Edition:1st ed. 2009
Series:Entrepreneurship
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Recent case studies indicated that competing successfully in the present while simultaneously creating appropriate strategic options for the future is one of the toughest managerial challenges for established organizations. Patrick Schulze addresses this issue by investigating the performance effects and organizational antecedents of innovation strategies and, in particular, ambidexterity. He develops an interesting and innovative perspective on this question arguing that successful companies need to become ambidextrous by either the structural separation of existing and new business or the creation of a supportive organizational context
Physical Description:XX, 288 p. 56 illus online resource
ISBN:9783834983978