Balancing exploration and exploitation in technological context:the role of strategic flexibility

摘要：

Exploration and exploitation represent two fundamentally different approaches to organizational learning, but recent literature has increasingly found the importance to achieve a balance between the two. Added with competency trap, we propose an integrated conceptual model which involves existing technological capability, existing technology base, strategic flexibility, technology exploitation and technology exploration. In this study, we emphasize the moderated role of strategic flexibility in balancing technology exploration and exploitation, and balancing the relations between existing technology base/capability and technological exploration/exploitation.

作者: Feifei YU Xinxin YANG

作者单位: Business School, Hohai University, NanJing, P.R.China, 211100 Business School, The University of Alabama in Huntsville Huntsville, USA, 35806

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: International Conference on Management and Service Science(2011年第五届管理与服务科学国际会议 MASS 2011)

会议地点: 武汉

会议语种:英文

页码: 1-4

在线出版日期: 2011-08-12（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）