دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی وضعیت پژوهش دوجانبه: یک رویکرد داده کاوی - امرالد 2017

Abstract

Purpose - The academic discipline of ambidexterity is recognized as an established field within strategic management and organization theory. Extant works in the field recognize the recent burgeoning academic emphasis on ambidexterity and suggest either an impending focus or a decline for the field. Although there have been attempts to review the field of ambidexterity, most of these reviews have not followed a systematic and scientific approach to extricate the key themes emerging within. The purpose of the study is to inductively and systematically capture the main elements constituting the current boundary of the field. Design/methodology/approach - To achieve the stated purpose, this study employs data/text mining to analyze abstracts of scholarly ambidexterity articles published over the past two decades (1997-2016) in academic journals. Using text-mining, lexical analysis is performed to compute the frequency distribution of words. The frequently occurring words are studied in detail and their association with ambidexterity is also studied by means of co-relation. This analysis (used for generation of first order themes) is then complemented by a manual analysis of each first order theme to come up with trends and sub-themes lying within. Findings - The analysis extracts eight distinct themes that indicate the current boundary of ambidexterity research. The findings highlight the potential areas for future academic attention such as networks, business models, leadership, dynamic capability and their inter-linkages with the field of ambidexterity. Overall, the field of ambidexterity is receiving heightened academic interest coupled with a dynamic proliferation across a host of related management fields. Apart from the required future consolidation, the field also needs new insights to enhance its explanatory power. Research limitations/implications - This study analyzes abstracts of 504 works on ambidexterity (in the last two decades) to inductively indicate the current boundaries of the field using a data/text mining approach. Papers that do not explicitly mention ambidexterity in their abstracts, title or keywords are not included in the analysis. Practical implications - The insights of the analysis will not only help researchers but also offer practitioners a good view point about the myriad of paths (not restricted to contextual, structural and temporal) through which ambidexterity can be promoted within and at the organization level. Originality/value - The three-fold contribution of this study is: a systematic and scientific approach adopted to define the current boundary of the field of ambidexterity, followed by an exploration of a set of eight distinct themes and finally the identification of ongoing debates, research gaps and future research questions in light of the analysis performed.

6. Conclusion and Implications for future research

Although there have been attempts to review the field of ambidexterity, most of these reviews have not followed a systematic and scientific approach to extricate the key themes emerging within. The motivation of the current study is to inductively derive major themes helping to set the current boundary of the field. This study follows a systematic approach from document search till text aggregation followed by a scientific approach of text mining to reveal the implicit themes of the field. The study identifies a set of eight distinct themes which are analyzed indepth to identify sub-themes and trends. Further, the analysis highlights key potential areas and current debates requiring future academic attention. The analysis brings out some key aspects regarding the state of ambidexterity research. Firstly, the field of ambidexterity is receiving heightened academic interest coupled with dynamic proliferation across a host of related management fields. Additionally, we are currently witnessing growth in the various ways of understanding ambidexterity. Although, these varied approaches pose the risk of an eventual splintering of the field, these insights are opening newer ways to visualize ambidexterity. Secondly, apart from required consolidation, the field also needs new insights to enhance its explanatory power. The above mentioned aspects are discussed in detail in the paper. This exercise should prove valuable for ambidexterity scholars looking for clarity on the various aspects of ambidexterity research and helps pave the way for fueling a renewed focus on future research avenues in the field.