NETWORK CAPABILITY AND ORGANIZATIONAL AMBIDEXTERITY FROM THE OPEN INNOVATION VIEW

Organizational ambidexterity has become an emerging research trend when it adapt to the environment dynamism in the organization science and strategy research. Previous research focused on the organization-level or unit-level analysis like structural, context and TMT attributes within the organizational boundary, especially focused on the MNCs. However, small and medium firms also need to balance the exploration and exploitation to adapt to the environment dynamism with limited resource engagement in the context of China that the distribution of organizational technology and market resource is uneven. From the open innovation research advancement, inter-organizational ambidexterity that organizations balance the exploration and exploitation simultaneously across the organizational boundary through the co-specialization is more realistic pattern. Through the analysis of interaction of the inter-organizational and intra-organizational ambidexterity, we introduce network capability as the antecedent in the network context and suggest an integrated model.