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Unpacking the impact of innovation ambidexterity on export performance: Microfoundations and infrastructure investment

Yan, J.; Tsinopoulos, C.; Xiong, Y.

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Authors

C. Tsinopoulos

Y. Xiong



Abstract

When designing and managing routines for their innovation activities firms often face a challenge. Either they can concentrate their efforts on one approach i.e. exploring new ideas or exploiting its existing capabilities, or they can try to do both, i.e. becoming ambidextrous. In this paper, we aim to explore first the effect of exploration, exploitation and ambidexterity on export performance and second the moderating role of investment in infrastructure. Using firm-level data from the UK’s innovation survey (CIS) we find that both exploration and exploitation improve export performance. We also find that investment in infrastructure weakens this relationship. Counterintuitively, we find that ambidexterity has a negative effect on export performance, and that it is negatively moderated by investment in infrastructure. We use microfoundations arguments (the routines firms employ and the actions taken by individuals and groups within them to shape their exporting capabilities) to explain how efforts to achieve ambidexterity can improve export performance

Citation

Yan, J., Tsinopoulos, C., & Xiong, Y. (2021). Unpacking the impact of innovation ambidexterity on export performance: Microfoundations and infrastructure investment. International Business Review, 30(1), Article 101766. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2020.101766

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Oct 14, 2020
Online Publication Date Oct 22, 2020
Publication Date Feb 1, 2021
Deposit Date Oct 23, 2020
Publicly Available Date Apr 22, 2022
Journal International Business Review
Print ISSN 0969-5931
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 30
Issue 1
Article Number 101766
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2020.101766
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1258787

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