Factors And Results Of Entrepreneurial Ambidexterity

Ambidextrous organization is a new model in the face of condition change. Growing evidence shows that ambidextrous firms are more successful than firms that are only oriented to exploration or exploitation. Consequently, it is a still question worth exploring the factors which affect the building of the ambidextrous organization. This paper will discuss the relation between CEO'social capital and the building of the ambidextrous organization of entrepreneurial firm and how the ambidextrous organization affects the performance of entrepreneurial firm.There are two research questions:(1) How CEO'social capital affects the building of ambidextrous organization and if the TMT (top management team) cognitive conflict moderate? (2) How the ambidextrous organization affect the performance of entrepreneurial firm?This research adopts the method of literature analysis. Drawing on the information processing perspective, this paper builds the model that how the factors affect the ambidextrous organization'building and how the ambidextrous organization affects the performance. Then I borrow some data of associate professor Zhang. This research makes use of correlation analysis and regression to test the theoretical model.This paper gets the following conclusions:(1) CEO's weak social network can directly influence the building of ambidextrous organization entrepreneurial firm, But CEO's strong social network can not directly influence the building of ambidextrous organization of entrepreneurial firm. (2) TMT (top management team) cognitive conflict moderates the information advantage brought by CEO's social networks. TMT cognitive conflict and CEO's strong social network have a negative interaction on organizational ambidexterity. TMT cognitive conflict and CEO's weak social network have a positive interaction on organizational ambidexterity'building. (3) The ambidextrous organization is positively associated with the performance of entrepreneurial firm.The main contributions of this paper are:(1) The paper builds up two models. One is how the social capital affects the building of ambidextrous organization. The other is how the ambidextrous organization affects the performance.(2) Using TMT cognitive conflict as a moderate variable, the paper tests that CEO's weak social network, strong social network and TMT cognitive conflict have a positive or interaction on organizational ambidexterity.