Strategic ambidexterity in small and medium-sized enterprises: Implementing exploration and exploitation in product and market domains

Organization Science

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1459-1477

  Voss, Glenn B ^a   Voss, Zannie Giraud ^a,b  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KEDGE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

Ambidexterity; Market exploitation; Market exploration; Product exploitation; Product exploration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885108793     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1120.0790     Document Type: Article

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