Examining the Antecedents of Organizational Ambidexterity from the Perspective of Structure and Context

Abstract

Existing research has uncovered the question of how to realize organizational ambidexterity from the perspective of structure and context. Structural ambidexterity refers to dividing the organization system into multiple subsystems, each subsystem implements specific exploration and exploitation activities according to the external environment needs. The context perspective holds that achieving organizational ambidexterity depends on creating such a high performance context within the firm as discipline, stretch, support, and trust.