| Title |
Strategies, decisions and operations for keeping exploitative and exploratory activities balanced |
| ID_Doc |
75562 |
| Authors |
Chen, HH; Kang, HY; Lee, AHI; Chen, S |
| Title |
Strategies, decisions and operations for keeping exploitative and exploratory activities balanced |
| Year |
2015 |
| Published |
Knowledge Management Research & Practice, 13, 2 |
| DOI |
10.1057/kmrp.2013.42 |
| Abstract |
Sustainable competitive advantage of a firm may lie in the firm's ability to exploit its current competencies while simultaneously exploring new capabilities. However, this is hard to be achieved at the same time. Therefore, a conceptual decision-making framework is proposed to fulfil this task. First, to balance exploitation and exploration under punctuated equilibrium, a fuzzy analytic network process with goal programming is developed to help decision makers select the best projects under specific environments. Second, an executive committee, where experts use computer groupware with the Delphi technique to balance exploratory and exploitative activities flexibly, is formed to allocate limited resources during the implementation of the projects. After a practical investigation, the research concludes that the strategy targeted for balancing exploitation and exploration should be periodically adjusted, and the limited. resources should be allocated during the execution of projects. Specifically, the proposed model for sustainable competitive advantage is recommended to Practitioners in developing and implementing projects. |
| Author Keywords |
ambidexterity; punctuated equilibrium; fuzzy analytic network process; goal programming |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) |
| EID |
WOS:000354910200008 |
| WoS Category |
Information Science & Library Science; Management |
| Research Area |
Information Science & Library Science; Business & Economics |
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