Abstract:
Organizational Ambidexterity refers to the organization’s capability to exploit their
existing resources and explore new opportunities in the market. The study revolves
around 2 factors that simultaneously lead to Organizational Ambidexterity i.e.
Exploration and Exploitation. The study has been conducted for the start-ups having
completed 3-7 years in the market. In order to gather the data, questionnaire was
circulated to 200 start-ups based on the survey items used by Gibson and Birkinshaw
(2004), He and Wong (2004), and Jansen et al. (2009). Data was received from 148
respondents which composed of employees, founder and co-founder of the start-ups.
Findings revealed that there is high level of exploration in the start-ups which means
that these start-ups focus on innovation to grab new opportunities in the market. It
was also observed that these start-ups exploit their resources optimally i.e. they
don’t waste the resources and use them to the optimum level. Data analysis indicated
that both the exploration and exploitation together leads to organizational
ambidexterity. The start-ups balance both their exploration and exploitation
activities in such a manner that the organizational ambidexterity is achieved. Hence
the hypothesis, exploration and exploitation impacts organizational ambidexterity
has been proved through statistical analysis.
Description:
Fourteenth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship/ Edited by Rajeev Sharma, Sunil Shukla, Amit Kumar Dwivedi & Ganapathi Batthini
