Developing digital transformation capability : the role of managerial ambidextrous learning

Dragičević, Nikolina (author), Lamovšek, Amadeja (author), Batistič, Saša (author)

This paper integrates the individual ambidexterity, digital transformation, and dynamic capabilities literatures to develop a framework that helps to understand the role of managerial ambidextrous learning in building the digital transformation capability of an organization. Based on a comprehensive literature review, the paper identifies competing demands in terms of managerial learning orientation serving as microfoundations of different dynamic organizational capabilities underpinning digital transformation. We adopt an ambidextrous perspective of learning and propose that managers need to balance explorative and exploitative learning to aid building digital transformation capabilities. This paper contributes to ambidexterity and dynamic capabilities theoretical perspectives through its distinctive focus on the role of individual-level learning in the context of organizational‐level digital transformation. The paper enhances understanding of how firms may support digital efforts by becoming sensitive to and supporting managerial ambidexterity as a critical factor in a successful digital transformation journey. We suggest that future research efforts should investigate empirically the role of managerial ambidextrous behavior in digital efforts. 

• Language: English
• Keywords: enterprises, management, digitalizstion
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: Str. 5-19
• Numbering: Vol. 11, iss. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-146680
• UDC: 005
• ISSN on article: 2232-5867
• DOI: 10.17708/DRMJ.2022.v11n02a01
• COBISS.SI-ID: 132873219
• Publication date in RUL: 06.06.2023

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Dynamic relationships management journal
• Publisher: Slovenian academy of management
• ISSN: 2232-5867
• COBISS.SI-ID: 262077952

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• License: CC BY-NC 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian

Abstract

Ta članek združuje literaturo individualne obojeročnosti, digitalne preobrazbe in dinamičnih sposobnosti z namenom razvoja ogrodja, ki pomaga razumeti vlogo managerske prilagodljivosti učenja pri gradnji sposobnosti digitalne preobrazbe organizacije. Prispevek na podlagi obsežnega pregleda literature opredeljuje konkurenčne zahteve v smislu usmeritve managerskega učenja, ki služijo kot mikrotemelji različnih dinamičnih organizacijskih sposobnosti, ki podpirajo digitalno preobrazbo. Sprejemamo dvostransko perspektivo učenja in predlagamo, da morajo managerji uravnotežiti raziskovalno in izkoriščevalno učenje, da bi pomagali pri izgradnji sposobnosti digitalne preobrazbe. Ta članek prispeva k teoretičnim perspektivam obojeročnosti in dinamičnih sposobnosti s svojim izrazitim poudarkom na vlogi učenja na ravni posameznika v kontekstu digitalne preobrazbe na organizacijski ravni. Članek izboljšuje razumevanje, kako lahko podjetja podpirajo digitalna prizadevanja, tako da postanejo občutljiva in podpirajo vodstveno obojeročnost kot kritični dejavnik na uspešni poti digitalne preobrazbe. Za nadaljnje raziskovanje predlagamo, da se empirično razišče vlogo managerskega oboročnega vedenja v digitalnih prizadevanjih.

• Keywords: podjetje, management, digitalizacija

Projects

• Funder: HRZZ - Croatian Science Foundation
• Project number: UI‐2020‐02‐8889