Creating ambidexterity by integrating and balancing structurally separate interorganizational partnerships

Strategic Organization

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 283-312

  Kauppila, Olli Pekka ^a  

^a HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Ambidexterity; Exploitation; Exploration; Innovations; Interorganizational relations; Organizational change

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650313826     PISSN: 14761270     EISSN: 1741315X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476127010387409     Document Type: Article

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