Untangling the Effects of Overexploration and Overexploitation on Organizational Performance: The Moderating Role of Environmental Dynamism Export

@article{citeulike:3428023, abstract = {Because a firm's optimal knowledge search behavior is determined by unique firm and industry conditions, organizational performance should be contingent on the degree to which a firm's actual level of knowledge search deviates from the optimal level. It is thus hypothesized that deviation from the optimal search, in the form of either overexploitation or overexploration, is detrimental to organizational performance. Furthermore, the negative effect of search deviation on organizational performance varies with environmental dynamism; that is, overexploitation is expected to become more harmful, whereas overexploration becomes less so with an increase in environmental dynamism. The empirical analyses yield results consistent with these arguments. Implications for research and practice are correspondingly discussed. 10.1177/0149206308321547}, author = {Wang, Heli and Li, Jiatao}, citeulike-article-id = {3428023}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://jom.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/34/5/925}, day = {1}, journal = {Journal of Management}, keywords = {dynamism, environment, moderating, organizational, overexploitation, overexploration, performance}, month = {October}, number = {5}, pages = {925--951}, posted-at = {2008-10-18 17:49:10}, priority = {3}, title = {Untangling the Effects of Overexploration and Overexploitation on Organizational Performance: The Moderating Role of Environmental Dynamism}, url = {http://jom.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/34/5/925}, volume = {34}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3428023 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3428023 N2 - Because a firm's optimal knowledge search behavior is determined by unique firm and industry conditions, organizational performance should be contingent on the degree to which a firm's actual level of knowledge search deviates from the optimal level. It is thus hypothesized that deviation from the optimal search, in the form of either overexploitation or overexploration, is detrimental to organizational performance. Furthermore, the negative effect of search deviation on organizational performance varies with environmental dynamism; that is, overexploitation is expected to become more harmful, whereas overexploration becomes less so with an increase in environmental dynamism. The empirical analyses yield results consistent with these arguments. Implications for research and practice are correspondingly discussed. 10.1177/0149206308321547 IS - 5 JF - Journal of Management EP - 951 TI - Untangling the Effects of Overexploration and Overexploitation on Organizational Performance: The Moderating Role of Environmental Dynamism VL - 34 SP - 925 KW - dynamism KW - environment KW - moderating KW - organizational KW - overexploitation KW - overexploration KW - performance AU - Wang, Heli AU - Li, Jiatao PY - 2008/10/01/ UR - http://jom.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/34/5/925 ER -