Internal and external antecedents of SMEs' innovation ambidexterity outcomes

Management Decision

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1658-1676

  Chang, Yi Ying ^a   Hughes, Mathew ^b   Hotho, Sabine ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environment; Exploitative innovations; Explorative innovation; Innovation; Innovation ambidexterity; Internal structure; Small to medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 81455128803     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741111183816     Document Type: Article

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