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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Winnen, Lothar
• Wilms, Rafael

Titel

Intellectual Capital Architectures and Ambidexterity: A Dynamic Approach

Ist Teil von

• European Conference on Intangibles and Intellectual Capital, 2014, p.316

Ort / Verlag

Kidmore End: Academic Conferences International Limited

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

Business Source Ultimate【Trial: -2024/12/31】【Remote access available】

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Until now, only Kang and Snell (2009) have addressed the dependencies between intellectual capital and the trade-off between exploration and exploitation. Their proposed framework describes two distinctive architectures of intellectual capital facilitating ambidextrous learning. However, this framework fits rather static than dynamic approaches of ambidexterity. In order to bridge that research gap, the authors extent Kang and Snell's (2009) framework. They propose an intellectual capital architecture, which considers a dynamic switch among the dimensions of intellectual capital to enable an organisation to be ambidextrous. Three important facts can be mentioned. First, organizational capital switches between organic and mechanistic organisational capital. Second, social capital is related to organisational culture that can be classified into two different types. Third and by contrast, the human capital dimension is characterised by a constant degree: only a slight switch between the degree of specific and generic human capital is necessary due to the highly unique character of specific human capital.