Special Track CROSS-CULTURAL MANAGEMENT In collaboration with IACCM

Explorative and Exploitative Innovation in cross border R&D Alliances

Senem Yazici, Erwin Altena

We investigate explorative and exploitative activities of 86 SMEs participating in funded cross border R&D Alliances in a specific European funding region (Interreg-V-A- Program, European Union) in Germany and Netherlands. We argue (a) that innovation activities are positively related to cross border collaboration, and (b) that ambidexterity may arise from structural or contextual ambidexterity. We shed light on the impact of balanced organizational culture on the balanced interplay between explorative and exploitative innovation activities by applying the configuration model of organizational culture as a frame of reference.

#ambidexterity #Cultural Values #Exploitative Innovation #Explorative Innovation #R&D Alliances