In the current, increasingly dynamic environment, more attention is being devoted to ambidexterity (both explorative and exploitative learning), as it is beneficial to organizational functioning. Despite an abundance of research on organizational ambidexterity, there is a paucity of research examining team-level ambidexterity. In a cross-level empirical study, we examine a leader's dialectical thinking as an antecedent of team-level ambidexterity. We also incorporate collective team identification as a moderator in the study. Our findings support that a leader's dialectical thinking can help facilitate team ambidexterity that, in turn, improves employee performance. Those teams whose members have strong team identification and whose leader is high in dialectical thinking will reap the most benefit from team ambidexterity.

在当前，日益动态的环境中，更多的注意力都集中在双元性（探索性和剥削性学习）上，因为它有利于组织运作。尽管有大量关于组织二元性的研究，但很少有研究检验团队层面的二元性。在一项跨层次的实证研究中，我们将领导者的辩证思维视为团队层次双元性的先决条件。我们还将集体团队认同作为研究的调节者。我们的研究结果支持领导者的辩证思维有助于促进团队的二元性，进而提高员工绩效。那些成员具有很强的团队认同感和领导者辩证思维能力强的团队将从团队的二元性中获得最大的收益。