@Article{
AUTHOR = {Lee, Michael T. Lee and Gaudioso, Nicholas V. Gaudioso},
TITLE = {Understanding Firm Growth and Revival through Ambidexterity: An Accounting and Organizational Perspective},
JOURNAL = {Journal of Business Accounting and Finance Perspectives},
VOLUME = {2},
YEAR = {2020},
NUMBER = {2},
PAGES = {0--0},
URL = {https://jbafp.archive.jams.pub/article/2/2/26},
ISSN = {2603-7475},
ABSTRACT = {Young firms and established firms have a tendency to emphasize one type of organizational learning to their detriment. This reduces organizational ambidexterity and makes them susceptible to failure. This study explores how two high-tech manufacturing firms use cost information from an accounting system to balance exploitation and exploration learning for ambidexterity. A successful growth firm and a revival firm are examined since both of these business life-cycle stages focus on a strategy of aggressive building. The evidence shows that the use of cost information to balance learning and achieve ambidexterity is different between a growth firm and revival firm. The use of cost information for exploitation and exploration is undertaken by taking each firm’s learning pre-disposition, pivoting organizational culture, and utilizing a functional structure to realize contextual and structural ambidexterity. This study provides preliminary models for future research on accounting and the organizational elements for achieving organizational ambidexterity.},
DOI = {10.35995/jbafp2020008}
}