Works
- Ambidextrous organizations: managing evolutionary and revolutionary change, California Management Review 38(4), 8 to 29, 1996
- The ambidextrous organization, Harvard Business Review (April 2004), 2004
- Ambidexterity as a dynamic capability: resolving the innovator's dilemma, Research in Organizational Behavior 28, 185 to 206, 2008
- Organizational ambidexterity: IBM and emerging business opportunities, California Management Review 51(4), 75 to 99, 2009
- Organizational ambidexterity: past, present, and future, Academy of Management Perspectives 27(4), 324 to 338, 2013
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Organizational culture and ambidexterity
Ideas
Ambidexterity at IBM. IBM's Emerging Business Opportunity process is presented as a deliberate, repeatable version of multi-level selection that, with ambidexterity, helped the firm adapt and grow. Caveat: One firm, with an IBM executive as coauthor.
The state of ambidexterity research. Ambidexterity is the ability to compete in mature markets where efficiency and control count and in new ones where flexibility and experimentation count; the authors review what is known and not known. Caveat: A review by the form's originators.