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When Distant Partners Become Your Closest Friends : Ambidexterity in Cross-Industry Collaboration
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2010-08-06
Author(s)
Rosenkranz, Nicole
Abstract (De)
Ambidexterity research has repeatedly emphasized the merits of inter-firm collaboration in the conduct of exploitation and exploration. Prior studies address attributes of inter-firm exploitation and exploration but not whether and how both innovation types may originate simultaneously in single project settings. Focusing on cross-industry innovation - existing solutions from one industry are employed to invention processes in another industry setting - we analyze six case studies on their innovation projects. Our findings suggest that individual learning potentials differ for the collaboration partners, acting as a function of the initial knowledge distance, project role and subsequent process architecture. This analysis has significant implications for research on inter-firm ambidexterity by exposing the potential for balanced exploitative and exploratory learning in collaboration processes in contrast to previous findings that promote structural, temporal or contextual separation of both innovation types.
Language
German
Keywords
Ambidexterity
exploration
exploitation
cross-industry collaboration
HSG Classification
not classified
Refereed
Yes
Book title
Dare to Care: Passion and Compassion in Management Practice & Research
Publisher
Academy of Management
Publisher place
New York
Start page
41
Event Title
70th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Event Location
Montreal
Subject(s)
Eprints ID
61239