EconPapers    
Economics at your fingertips  
 

The Development of Individual Ambidexterity Across Institutional Environments: Symmetric and Configurational Analyses

Jing A. Zhang (jing.zhang@otago.ac.nz), Tao Bai (tao.bai@uq.edu.au), Ryan W. Tang (ryan.tang@unisa.edu.au), Fiona Edgar (fiona.edgar@otago.ac.nz), Steven Grover (steven.grover@mq.edu.au) and Guoquan Chen (chengqu@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn)
Additional contact information
Jing A. Zhang: University of Otago
Tao Bai: The University of Queensland
Ryan W. Tang: UniSA Business, University of South Australia
Fiona Edgar: University of Otago
Steven Grover: Macquarie University
Guoquan Chen: Tsinghua University

Management International Review, 2022, vol. 62, issue 4, No 3, 517-540

Abstract: Abstract Buoyed by recent calls for research to explore micro-level cognitive explanations for ambidexterity, this study examines how individuals’ self-efficacy and resilience affect individual ambidexterity across different institutional environments. Building on social cognitive theory, we posit that self-efficacy enhances ambidexterity via resilience and that such relationship varies across economic institutional environments. Our symmetric (PLS-SEM) and configurational (fsQCA) analyses of 1907 knowledge workers in China, New Zealand and Australia provide supportive and complementary evidence for these theoretical arguments. Specifically, PLS-SEM reveals that the mediating effects of resilience on the relationship between self-efficacy and individual ambidexterity are stronger in an environment where economic institutions are weak. fsQCA complements PLS-SEM by showing that individual ambidexterity can be explained by multiple configurations of psychological self-efficacy, resilience, characteristics related to institutions, and personal demographic factors. Taken together, these findings contribute to the international business literature by providing a nuanced understanding of how different psychological resources integrate and interact with institutional factors to enhance individual ambidexterity.

Keywords: Self-efficacy; Resilience; Individual ambidexterity; Economic institutional environments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11575-022-00477-y Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:manint:v:62:y:2022:i:4:d:10.1007_s11575-022-00477-y

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/journal/11575

DOI: 10.1007/s11575-022-00477-y

Access Statistics for this article

Management International Review is currently edited by Michael-Jörg Oesterle and Joachim Wolf

More articles in Management International Review from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla (sonal.shukla@springer.com) and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (indexing@springernature.com).

 
Page updated 2024-12-29
Handle: RePEc:spr:manint:v:62:y:2022:i:4:d:10.1007_s11575-022-00477-y