The role of formalization and organizational trust as antecedents of ambidexterityAn investigation on the organic agro-food industry
- Odette Chams-Anturi 1
- Maria D. Moreno-Luzon 2
- Pietro Romano 3
- 1 Universidad de la Costa, Barranquilla, Colombia
- 2 University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
- 3 University of Udine, Udine, Italy
ISSN: 2340-9444, 2340-9436
Argitalpen urtea: 2022
Alea: 25
Zenbakia: 3
Orrialdeak: 243-264
Mota: Artikulua
Beste argitalpen batzuk: Business Research Quarterly
Laburpena
This article investigates the influence of specific key organizational factors (i.e., enabling formalization, coercive formalization, and trust) as antecedents of ambidexterity. Moreover, we propose a new way of operationalizing ambidexterity, under a holistic vision, including the synergies between exploration and exploitation. The study has been developed in the Spanish organic agro-food industry; a total of 239 usable responses were received from two respondents from each company—the general manager and the quality manager. The findings show that enabling formalization and organizational trust are positively related to ambidexterity, but contrary to our predictions, we found no evidence to show that coercive formalization is related to ambidexterity. In turn, we found different results for trust as a moderating factor on the types of formalization and ambidexterity.
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