Organizational ambidexterity in higher education institutions: proposition of evolutive stages of ambidexterity

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https://doi.org/10.5902/1983465934927

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Purpose  – The general objective of the research was to propose evolutionary stages of organizational ambidexterity.

Design/methodology/approach – The research methodology was classified as an exploratory and descriptive study, whose method of data collection was through a questionnaire, the sample was census by adherence, from a population of 110 higher education institutions (HEI), participating in the study 79 cases, distributed throughout the Brazilian territory.

Findings  – It is noteworthy that HEI are part of the same economic group, and even though 96% of the cases were classified as ambidextrous organizations, there was a great dispersion between them, suggesting some heterogeneity of the investigated cases.

Originality – With the findings, the proposition of the existence of different levels of ambidexterity arose. This phenomenon, in a preliminary way, was labeled as the Degree of Maturity of Ambidextrous Organizational

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Juliano Lima Soares, Universidade Federal de Goiás

Faculdade de Administração, Ciências Contábeis e Ciências Econômicas – FACE

Grupo de Pesquisa: Estratégia, Controle e Desempenho

Dálcio Roberto dos Reis, Universidade Positivo, Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil

Programa de Mestrado e Doutorado em Administração - PMDA
Rua Professor Pedro Viriato Parigot 5300, Curitiba, Paraná 81.280.330, Brasil

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2021-03-09

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Soares, J. L., & Reis, D. R. dos. (2021). Organizational ambidexterity in higher education institutions: proposition of evolutive stages of ambidexterity. Revista De Administração Da UFSM, 14(1), 100–118. https://doi.org/10.5902/1983465934927

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