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Dear friends and colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to submit your paper to the track on "The microfoundations of organizational ambidexterity: Multilevel insights" in the next EURAM conference that will be held in Valencia 2014 - June, 4th-7th.
In the modern competitive world, firms need to be able to exploit current competencies and product market combinations, as well as to explore new territories. Such ambidextrous organizations excel in pursuing exploratory and exploitative activities simultaneously and are able to recognize interdependencies, capture synergistic value, and realize sustainable performance over time. The phenomenon of organizational ambidexterity has received ample attention in the literature.
Despite its growing popularity, however, important questions remain. More fundamentally, little is known about how exploitation and exploration can be facilitated, integrated and combined across different organizational levels.
This track focuses on the microfoundations and multilevel perspectives on exploration, exploitation and ambidexterity. We encourage submissions that investigate how exploration, exploitation, their antecedents as well as performance consequences are interconnected at different levels of analysis.
Appropriate research questions include, but are certainly not limited to:
How can firms drive performance through external, boundary spanning ambidextrous collaborations?
Can and should structural and contextual ambidexterity co-exist within the same firm, and how do different hierarchical levels influence such structuring?
What role does middle management play in combining top-down, bottom-up, and horizontal initiatives that facilitate ambidexterity?
How does managers' ambidexterity results in business-unit or firm-level ambidexterity and performance?
What role do teams play in creating ambidexterity within firms?
How is team-level ambidexterity jointly influenced by higher-level mechanisms and individual-level characteristics?
What drives an individual's orientation towards exploration and exploitation? Are individuals able to evenly focus on exploitation and exploration?
How may the different levels of analysis (individual-, team-, unit-, firm-level) conjointly help create ambidexterity within firms?
How do ambidextrous activities at multiple levels contribute to performance over time?
We encourage submissions that investigate how exploration, exploitation, their antecedents as well as performance consequences are interconnected at different levels of analysis.
We are particularly interested in research which explores the micro-level origins of ambidexterity from various theoretical and practical perspectives.
Key dates:
Papers submission deadline: January 16th, 2014 (2:00 p.m. Brussels time)
Acceptance notification to authors: from March 28th, 2014
Early-bird & Authors' Registration: April 25th, 2014 (2:00 pm Brussels time)
EURAM Conference: June 4th-7th, 2014
For more information on the conference, please visit the official website of the conference:http://www.euram2014.org/
If you need further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Track co-chairs:
Shlomo Y. Tarba, University of Sheffield Management School, UK (coordinator) s.tarba@sheffield.ac.uk
Julian Birkinshaw, London Business School, UK
Justin Jansen, Rotterdam School of Management, The Netherlands
Tom Mom, Rotterdam School of Management, The Netherlands
Sebastian Raisch, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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