Morteza Mousakhani; Seyed Mehdi Alvani; Ebrahim Mahmoodzadeh; Yasser Alidadi Talkhestani
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Organizational ambidexterity is defined as the ability of companies to simultaneously explore and exploit. One of the key resources to achieve ambidexterity, is social capital. This study seeks to identify factors influencing the creation of an ambidextrous social capital at defense-industrial organization. ...
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Organizational ambidexterity is defined as the ability of companies to simultaneously explore and exploit. One of the key resources to achieve ambidexterity, is social capital. This study seeks to identify factors influencing the creation of an ambidextrous social capital at defense-industrial organization. In order to achieve this goal, the combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods were used. Initially the focus group was used, and based on its results, a questionnaire was prepared and in the sample of 98, were distributed in the organization. 32 items extracted from the literature an focus group meetings, 3 key competencies, were analyzed using structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). As a result in the organization, structural social capital with dimensions strong-bonds and weak-ties; cognitive social capital with dimensions values, vision and language (narratives); and relational social capital with dimensions trust, norms and identity were the most important in the studied organization.
Mir Ali Seyyednaghvi; Vajhollah Ghorbanizadeh; Davood Hosseinpoor; Alireza Koushkie Jahromi
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Organizational learning is a capability of organizations to create, transfer and act on the knowledge generation. Exploration- and exploitation-oriented learning activities required to produce organizational ambidextrous learning. This paper presents a scale developed ...
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Organizational learning is a capability of organizations to create, transfer and act on the knowledge generation. Exploration- and exploitation-oriented learning activities required to produce organizational ambidextrous learning. This paper presents a scale developed to classify organizations through cluster analysis as being Exploiters, explores, ambidextrous or with no defined orientation. The theoretical framework helps identify that the concepts associated with exploration and exploitation may be classified into six practical dimensions: organizational knowledge practices, innovative practices, competition, strategic orientation, organizational efficiency and partnerships. Indicators and criteria after sorting the dimensions of 36 features were identified and classified. Specialists were offered indicators derived from the theoretical review to identify final criteria by using Delphi technique. In the end, 6 indexes were deleted and 8 added to the index, therefore developing organizational learning model Ambidexterity was presented