Scale for classifying organizations as explorers, exploiters or ambidextrous
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2012
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International Journal of Information Management
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37
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Popadiuk S.
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This paper presents a scale developed to classify organizations through cluster analysis as being exploiters, explores, ambidextrous or with no defined orientation. The theoretical framework helps identify that the concepts associated with exploration and exploitation may be classified into six practical dimensions: organizational knowledge practices, innovative practices, competition, strategic orientation, organizational efficiency and partnerships. After stripping the data, the scale was underpinned by 45 attributes related to these dimensions. Convergent and divergent validity statistics are presented resulting from a questionnaire being applied to 249 respondents from companies located in Brazil. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Ambidextrous organizations , Brazil , Exploitation , Exploration and exploitation , Organizational efficiency , Organizational knowledge , Scale , Strategic orientation