Manager Ambidexterity: antecedents and consequences

Abstract

All companies struggle for a common purpose, their survival, and within the literature we can find all kinds of methods to achieve it. And not only survive if not how to get to be leader in a market as competitive as it is that we have today. In recent years the concept of innovation has been getting stronger and companies have increasingly invested in this field because it has been proved that it is a vital factor to have competitive advantages and to ensure a future. Also in the literature, we find how companies are always reminded to use their resources in the most possible effective way in order to obtain the maximum profit. It has also been shown that effective resource utilization allows companies to gain competitive advantages. The organizational ambidexterity is the combination of these two capacities, explore new ways and exploit the resources in the most effective way, in order to achieve a greater competitive advantage in the market and ensure the survival of the company. There are many studies that demonstrate how organizational ambidexterity positively affects the company's results. But how are the managers of these companies? Are considered also ambidextrous? And how does this ambidexterity affect the company's results? In this work we have been raised three proposals related to manager’s ambidexterity, and we sent a survey to 10 managers of medium and large companies that are leaders in their sector to be able to closely study their work practices and we would try to confirm our propositions.