Orientação individual para exploração (exploration) e explotação (exploitation) e prontidão para tecnologia

Abstract

This dissertation involved four constructs in organizational strategy area: exploration, exploitation, ambidexterity and technology readiness. The main objective was to evaluate the degree of association between exploration, exploitation, ambidexterity and technology readiness. To achieve this main objective it was developed a quantitative research study with students as unity of analysis. The research was conducted in Business Administration and International Business courses in a private university located in São Paulo city. The questionnaire was developed using two scales. The first one was adapted for the measurement of the guidelines for exploration and exploitation developed by Popadiuk (2012) and the other scale was developed by Parasuraman (2000) to measure technology readiness index. To describe results, it was used descriptive statistics. The research hypothesis was related to the comparison between means of the technology readiness index according to individual orientation to exploration, exploitation or ambidexterity. Structural equation modeling method and ANOVA analysis was used and applied by the PLS PM technique for checking and comparing the relationship between the constructs. The results showed that is possible to develop a scale for measurement exploration, exploitation or ambidexterity individual orientation based on model developed by Popadiuk (2012) and using a competency model proposed by Cheetam e Chivers (2005) as base of desired transposition. The statistical analysis results, based on 392 answered questionnaires, confirmed that some dimensions of technology readiness construct can vary by individual orientation to explorer, exploiter or ambidexterity.