ABSTRACT

This study aims to examine the relation between innovation ambidexterity and organisational performance and the moderating effect of business experience on a sample of IT companies. Various authors pointed out the necessity to analyse not only explorative and exploitative innovation separately, but also their combined effects on organisational performance. These effects are assessed by using polynomial regressions in testing the research hypotheses. Business experience contributes to important differences in both the quantity and quality of resources available, which are critical for innovation. With only a handful of papers specifically addressing business experience in the context of innovation ambidexterity, this study fills a major research gap. The findings demonstrate the positive influence of innovation ambidexterity on organisational performance. In terms of business experience, the findings show that in new ventures it moderates the relation between innovation ambidexterity and organisational performance, while in established companies no relation was found. Business experience is rarely used to explain interactions between innovation and performance and, as such, we provide new insights on how both new ventures and established companies make use of business experience in their innovation approaches.

摘要

本研究旨在检验创新二元性与组织绩效之间的关系，以及业务经验对 IT 公司样本的调节作用。多位作者指出，不仅要分别分析探索性创新和剥削性创新，还要分析它们对组织绩效的综合影响。这些影响是通过在测试研究假设时使用多项式回归来评估的。商业经验会导致可用资源的数量和质量产生重要差异，这对创新至关重要。由于只有少数论文专门针对创新二元性背景下的商业经验，这项研究填补了一个主要的研究空白。研究结果证明了创新二元性对组织绩效的积极影响。在商业经验方面，研究结果表明，在新企业中，它调节了创新二元性和组织绩效之间的关系，而在老牌公司中则没有发现任何关系。商业经验很少被用来解释创新和绩效之间的相互作用，因此，我们提供了关于新企业和老牌公司如何在创新方法中利用商业经验的新见解。