The role of formalization and organizational trust as antecedents of ambidexterity: An investigation on the organic agro-food industry

This article investigates the influence of specific key organizational factors (i.e., enabling formalization, coercive formalization, and trust) as antecedents of ambidexterity. Moreover, we propose a new way of operationalizing ambidexterity, under a holistic vision, including the synergies between...

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Autores:
Chams-Anturi, Odette
Moreno-Luzón, María D.
ROMANO, Pietro
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2020
Institución:
Corporación Universidad de la Costa
Repositorio:
REDICUC - Repositorio CUC
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.cuc.edu.co:11323/7999
Acceso en línea:
https://hdl.handle.net/11323/7999
https://doi.org/10.1177/2340944420966331
https://repositorio.cuc.edu.co/
Palabra clave:
Ambidexterity
Formalization
Organizational trust
Organic agro-food industry
Rights
openAccess
License
CC0 1.0 Universal
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Summary:This article investigates the influence of specific key organizational factors (i.e., enabling formalization, coercive formalization, and trust) as antecedents of ambidexterity. Moreover, we propose a new way of operationalizing ambidexterity, under a holistic vision, including the synergies between exploration and exploitation. The study has been developed in the Spanish organic agro-food industry; a total of 239 usable responses were received from two respondents from each company—the general manager and the quality manager. The findings show that enabling formalization and organizational trust are positively related to ambidexterity, but contrary to our predictions, we found no evidence to show that coercive formalization is related to ambidexterity. In turn, we found different results for trust as a moderating factor on the types of formalization and ambidexterity.