The Ambidextrous Organization: Management Paradox Today

For students of strategic management, organizational behaviour and knowledge management this is essential reading.. It goes beyond the usual focus on intangible concepts and ideas relating to learning and knowledge, and identifies actionable responses to contextual challenges, and how to develop an ambidextrous firm. Accessible and practical, this significant text explains key principles, with emphasis on developing students’ understanding of organizational learning, knowledge, innovation, and ambidexterity, and combines them with real-life company examples to illustrate the practical application, utility, and limitations of concepts and theories. Numerous books on organizational learning and knowledge management have appeared in recent years. There is a growing interest in ‘ambidextrous’ organizations that can achieve harmony between the opposing demands they face internally and externally (such as exploration and exploitation; change and stability; customization and standardization; the develo

He is co-author of Strategic Management, Competitiveness and Globalization, Cengage (2011).. He has held positions and visited at the Graduate School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, as well as ICS and IIR at Hitotsubashi University. About the AuthorPatrick Reinmoeller is Professor of Strategic Management, Director of the Breakthrough Strategic Thinking Program at Cranfield School of Management, UK and Visiting Professor at Erasmus University, The Netherlands

He has held positions and visited at the Graduate School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, as well as ICS and IIR at Hitotsubashi University. He is co-author of Strategic Management, Competitiveness and Globalization, Cengage (2011).. Patrick Reinmoeller is Professor of