Scientific work on organizational learning is flourishing yet several researchers have pointed to the importance of clarifying the core features of absorptive capacity as well as its relationships and the underlying mechanisms that link it to other variables of interest. In the present study, we...

While research on exploration, exploitation, and ambidexterity is burgeoning with hundreds of articles published each year, scholars have recently called for more clarity regarding the definitional qualities and the conditions under which they relate to other variables. In this paper, we adopt a...

In this study, we add new insights in the performance feedback theory by arguing that although organizations give primacy to feedback regarding corporate-level financial goals, they also have to attend to a variety of functional-level performance signals to identify more suitable solutions and...

Scholars have suggested that we need to further investigate the antecedents of ambidexterity at the top executive level. We develop a motivational perspective on organizational ambidexterity proposing that the different types of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) goal orientations (learning, approach...

Although benefits of absorptive capacity for new product development have been widely acknowledged, scholars have largely ignored potential costs and challenges involved. We develop a model that examines whether the interplay between a team’s potential (PACAP) and realized absorptive capacity...