Organizational Ambidexterity: Balancing local knowledge and global knowledge

摘要

Because there are advantages and disadvantages in both local knowledge and global knowledge,for the firms in the cluster,they should balance the relationship but not just focus on either one to achieve good performance while maintain their competitive advantage.However,with the intrinsic tension between local knowledge and global knowledge,it is hard for firms to balance them.Though summarizing the prior research on this area and analyzing the business cases,we found that to balance the local knowledge and global knowledge,firms in the cluster can establish the different structural units,improve the capacity of employees to deal with the different activities and acquire the dynamical decision and support from management team.