Ambidextrous Learning in Buyer-Supplier Relationships: The Role of Strategic and Operational Information Sharing

Theoretical Model And Hypotheses

Organizational learning theory states that organizations adapt to changing conditions in the business environment by continuously learning and applying the lessons learned to achieve superior performance (Huber, 1991). An appropriate balance between exploration and exploitation in organizational learning is required. Exploitation, which focuses on the efficient management of current processes is shorter term and less risky, as opposed to exploration, which seeks new ideas and innovations and yields longer term outcomes and entails more risk (March, 1991). The successful balancing of the two forms of learning to maximize the firm’s desired goals is known as ambidexterity (Chandrasekaran et al., 2012; Lennerts et al., 2019).