Finally, the dual motive is related to the concept of relative exploration: the needs of firms to balance their exploration and exploitation efforts (Bhandari et al., 2020; Gama et al., 2022). Firms can achieve this through ambidexterity in pursuing market- and knowledge-seeking goals in inter...
Using a Chilean fruit-farmer case, we examine how different types of social capital (bonding, bridging, and linking) are used to achieve what has been called ‘ambidexterity’. Ambidexterity implies both that open networks (based on linking and bridging social capital) are used to explore and ...