Zentrales Thema dieses Beitrags ist die Entwicklung neuer betrieblicher Lernkulturen. Theoretisches Lernen und Lernen am Arbeitsplatz werden gelegentlich als Alternativen diskutiert. Wenn man die "Employability" der Beschäftigten verbessern will, muss man jedoch beide Lernformen verknüpfen. In...

Ambidexterity can be defined as an organization’s ability to simultaneously reconcile exploration and exploitation. In this paper, we focus on contextual ambidexterity, i.e. ambidexterity that derives from the creation of a context that allows employees to pursue exploratory and exploitative...

We examine how two highly successful new biotechnology firms (NBFs) source their most critical input -- scientific knowledge. We find that scientists at the two NBFs enter into large numbers of collaborative research efforts with scientists at other organizations, especially universities. Formal...