Link on, Link off: Data-driven management of organizational networks for ambidexterity
研究企业如何通过设计和管理组织网络来平衡探索与利用活动，提出新探索单元需与关键资产部门适度连接，且理想连接度取决于企业拥有的互补资产数量，并展示了结合网络分析与人工调整的实践方法。
We examine how firms can intentionally design and manage their organizational networks to balance exploration and exploitation when a new exploration unit is established within an organization. We combine insights from the literature on social networks and structural ambidexterity and make two main arguments. First, a firm needs to ensure that the exploration unit is sufficiently connected to other parts of the organization where key complementary assets reside while minimizing the number of linkages to reduce the influence of the “old” way of thinking on new exploration efforts, to reduce coordination costs, and to increase adaptive ability. Second, the “ideal” level of connectedness for structural ambidexterity ultimately depends on the number of valuable complementary assets in a firm’s possession. We also show how managers can combine analytical methods from the computational literature on network analysis with managerial adjustments to do so in practice.