Study on the High-tech Enterprise Strategic Transformation Driven by the Combination of Multi-level Ambidexterity Capability: The Case of Lenovo Mobile

Abstract

Abstract:

Thepaper takes Lenovo Mobile as a study case to explain high-tech enterprise strategic transformation process and internal mechanism from the angle of organizational ambidexterity. This study opened the high-tech enterprise strategic transformation of "black box" and explains how to achieve strategic transformation through the inner mechanism of the organizational ambidexterity. The conclusion is that in the process of strategic transformation, Lenovo Mobile faced exploitation and exploration as the strategy paradox and these paradox elements supported each other and converted in one-way. We Identify the Lenovo Mobile through the primary level organization of the structure ambidexterity, middle organization of the contextual ambidexterity, high-level organization of the leadership ambidexterity to work together to effectively dissolve the strategy paradox. We further analyze the mechanisms of differentiation and integration that help promote the implementation of the strategic transformation. The study is significant in enriching the organizational ambidexterity and the relevant theories of strategic transformation system and helping China's high-tech enterprise achieve strategic transformation.

Key words: organizational ambidexterity, strategic transformation, strategic paradox

Ouyang Taohua, Cui Zhengyan, Zhang Di, Zeng Delin, Hu Jingbo. Study on the High-tech Enterprise Strategic Transformation Driven by the Combination of Multi-level Ambidexterity Capability: The Case of Lenovo Mobile[J]. , 2016, 28(1): 219-228.

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