How top management team behavioral integration and behavioral complexity enable organizational ambidexterity: The moderating role of contextual ambidexterity

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 207-218

  Carmeli, Abraham ^a   Halevi, Meyrav Yitzack ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambidexterity; Balance; Behavioral complexity; Behavioral integration; Exploitation; Exploration; Top management teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 61549108321     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2009.01.011     Document Type: Article

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