 Ambidextrous leadership: A systematic review and roadmap for future researchOlga Gianzina and Sotirios Paroutis Journal of Business Research, 2025, vol. 189, issue C Abstract: The main aim of this study is to extend our understanding of ambidextrous leadership. For this purpose, a systematic review of the literature published since 1991 has been conducted to reveal a variety of viewpoints on how leaders manage ambidexterity. A total of 141 articles were included in this study. According to our findings, at the individual level, the role requires that people be both capable and willing to act ambidextrously to foster ambidexterity. At the team level, middle managers’ composition and willingness to embrace ambidextrous activities of their leaders are important as their role and behaviors differ significantly from those of top managers. At the organizational level, many factors may affect ambidexterity management, from leaders’ personal characteristics to organizational characteristics, such organizational size, structure, strategy, and external environment. This study uses a multi-level framework to explain the concept of ambidextrous leadership, and then proposes future research directions. Keywords: Ambidexterity; Leadership; Systematic review; Multi-level framework; Qualitative data analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jbrese:v:189:y:2025:i:c:s0148296324006556 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115151 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Business Research is currently edited by A. G. Woodside More articles in Journal of Business Research from Elsevier |
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