Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/261926 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Citation: 
[Journal:] BRQ Business Research Quarterly [ISSN:] 2340-9436 [Volume:] 25 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] Sage Publishing [Place:] London [Year:] 2022 [Pages:] 243-264
Publisher: 
Sage Publishing, London
Abstract: 
This article investigates the influence of specific key organizational factors (i.e., enabling formalization, coercive formalization, and trust) as antecedents of ambidexterity. Moreover, we propose a new way of operationalizing ambidexterity, under a holistic vision, including the synergies between exploration and exploitation. The study has been developed in the Spanish organic agro-food industry; a total of 239 usable responses were received from two respondents from each company - the general manager and the quality manager. The findings show that enabling formalization and organizational trust are positively related to ambidexterity, but contrary to our predictions, we found no evidence to show that coercive formalization is related to ambidexterity. In turn, we found different results for trust as a moderating factor on the types of formalization and ambidexterity.
Subjects: 
Ambidexterity
formalization
organic agro-food industry
organizational trust
JEL: 
M10
M12
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Document Type: 
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