Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Mom, T.J.M.
Author-Name-Last: Mom
Author-Name-First: Tom
Author-Name: van den Bosch, F.A.J.
Author-Name-Last: van den Bosch
Author-Name-First: Frans
Author-Person: pbo133
Author-Name: Volberda, H.W.
Author-Name-Last: Volberda
Author-Name-First: Henk
Title: Investigating Managers' Exploration and Exploitation Activities: The Influence of Top-down, Bottom-up, and Horizontal Knowledge Inflows
Abstract: This paper develops and tests hypotheses on the influence of a manager’s knowledge inflows on this manager’s exploration and exploitation activities. Based on a survey among managers of a leading electronics firm, the findings indicate, as expected, that top-down knowledge inflows of a manager positively relate to the extent to which this manager conducts exploitation activities, while they do not relate to a manager’s exploration activities. Furthermore, as expected, bottom-up and horizontal knowledge inflows of a manager positively relate to this manager’s exploration activities, while they do not relate to a manager’s exploitation activities. We contribute to current literature on exploration and exploitation by focusing on the manager level of analysis, and by adding the importance of knowledge flow configurations to the literature on the impact of organizational factors upon exploration and exploitation.
Creation-Date: 2006-12-11
File-URL: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/9724/ERS-2006-078-STR.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Series: RePEc:ems:eureri
Number: ERS-2006-078-STR
Classification-JEL: D21, L20, M, M19
Keywords: Bottom-up, Exploitation, Exploration, Horizontal, Knowledge inflows, Manager-level, Top-down
Handle: RePEc:ems:eureri:9724