Solutions to the Exploration/Exploitation Dilemma: Networks as a New Level of Analysis
系统梳理了探索与利用困境的结构、行为、系统和时间四类解决方案,指出学习文献仍难以解释组织如何分离探索与利用并促进知识交换,提出网络视角(结合结构与社会关系)是未来突破方向。
This paper reviews the extant literature on the exploration/exploitation dilemma. Based on a systematic analysis of structural, behavioural, systemic and temporal solutions, the authors are able to show that the learning literature continues to struggle with the question of how exactly an organization can separate exploration and exploitation and at the same time enable necessary knowledge exchange and cooperation between these two notions. Paying closer attention to networks might enable future research to answer this question. In particular, a combination of structural aspects of networks and social ties has the potential to explain how the solutions currently on offer can be implemented successfully, how organizations can combine several of them, and how they can shift between them.