Top management team shared leadership and organizational ambidexterity: A moderated mediation framework

Oli R. Mihalache, Justin J.P. Jansen, Frans A.J. Van den Bosch, Henk W. Volberda

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    Abstract

    This study proposes top management team (TMT) shared leadership as an important enabler of organizational ambidexterity. Moreover, we examine both how and when TMT shared leadership enhances organizational ambidexterity by considering two TMT processes as mediators (i.e., cooperative conflict management style and decision-making comprehensiveness) and two elements of organizational structure (i.e., connectedness and centralization of decision making) as important contingencies. We test our moderated mediation framework using time-lagged data from a cross-industry sample of 202 firms. We discuss how our findings extend strategic entrepreneurship, ambidexterity, and leadership research and provide implications for practice.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)128-148
    Number of pages21
    JournalStrategic Entrepreneurship Journal
    Volume8
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jun. 2014

    Keywords

    • Ambidexterity
    • Centralization
    • Connectedness
    • Cooperative conflict management style
    • Decision-making comprehensiveness
    • TMT shared leadership

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