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Balancing Exploitation

Balancing Exploitation is a theoretical construct in organizational ambidexterity that denotes the strategic coordination mechanism enabling firms to maintain optimal performance through the refinement, efficiency enhancement, and incremental improvement of existing competencies, processes, and technologies, while simultaneously avoiding overcommitment to them in order to preserve capacity for exploration.

64

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35.9K

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128

Authors

88

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2017–2026

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Publications

64

Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning

James G. March · Organization Science · 1991 · 21.4K citations

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The Interplay Between Exploration and Exploitation

Anil K. Gupta, Ken G. Smith, Christina E. Shalley · Academy of Management Journal · 2006 · 3.2K citations

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Organizational Ambidexterity: Balancing Exploitation and Exploration for Sustained Performance

Sebastian Raisch, Julian Birkinshaw, Gilbert Probst et al. · Organization Science · 2009 · 2.2K citations · Full text

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Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in Alliance Formation

Dovev Lavie, Lori Rosenkopf · Academy of Management Journal · 2006 · 1.4K citations

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Exploration, exploitation, and financial performance: analysis of S&P 500 corporations

Juha Uotila, Markku Maula, Thomas Keil et al. · Strategic Management Journal · 2008 · 889 citations

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Authors

128

  1. DL
    Dovev Lavie

    Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

    5 publications · 1.9K citations

    5

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  2. LR
    Lori Rosenkopf

    University of Pennsylvania, United States

    4 publications · 1.9K citations

    4

    h-index

  3. JG
    James G. March

    Stanford University, United States

    3 publications · 21.9K citations

    3

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  4. JU
    Juha Uotila

    University of Warwick, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 977 citations

    3

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  5. JK
    Jingoo Kang

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    2 publications · 452 citations

    2

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Institutions

88

  1. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    6K citations

  2. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

    Haifa, Israel

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    540 citations

  3. University of Pisa

    Pisa, Italy

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    210 citations

  4. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

    Daejeon, South Korea

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    654 citations

  5. California University of Pennsylvania

    California, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    2.8K citations

  6. New York University

    New York, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    1.3K citations

  7. Aalto University

    Espoo, Finland

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    2.8K citations

  8. Bocconi University

    Milan, Italy

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    137 citations

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  1. Organization Science

    6 publications · 26K citations

    6

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  2. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 4 publications · 460 citations

    4

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  3. Academy of Management Proceedings

    3 publications · 70 citations

    3

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  4. Management and Organization Review

    MOR · 2 publications · 112 citations

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