Individual Ambidexterity:A Foreign Research Agenda and Prospects

Abstract

Abstract:

Individual ambidexterity has become a popular topic in the field of ambidexterity studies. As individual ambidexterity can be a balancing mechanism in reconciling the exploration and exploitation paradox, researchers gradually start to realize its important meaning in unveiling the nature of ambidexterity and its individual-level founding root. Foreign studies have been rapidly developed during the recent years, mainly concerned with the conceptualization, application, structural measurement, antecedent factors and functioning effects of individual ambidexterity, but more or less they tend to hold ambiguous perceptions towards this topic; meanwhile domestic researches are still vacant. In response to this appealing trend, our paper aims to provide a more scientific future research guide by offering a research agenda of the above-mentioned topics based on capturing the existing foreign literature foundations. Finally, we point out a bundle of suggestions for future studies, especially hoping to help the development of Chinese domestic studies in the future.

Key words: individual ambidexterity, exploration behaviors, exploitation behaviors, paradoxical theory, future research directions

Xiong Li, Cao Yuankun, Zhu Jianbin. Individual Ambidexterity:A Foreign Research Agenda and Prospects[J]. , 2018, 30(4): 142-156.

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