Building organizational capability that enables diversification by exploiting scientific knowledge

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380547
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Management
• Research Institution: Yokohama National University
• Principal Investigator: Kono Hideko 横浜国立大学, 大学院国際社会科学研究院, 教授 (40352736)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 組織能力 / サプライヤー / 多角化

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We researched the process of building organizational capability that enables diversification based on scientific knowledge, focusing on suplliers as the subject of analysis. Our analysis focused on case examples of successful diversification from the automotive and electronics components into medical equipments. The result indicate that suppliers have achieved "contextual ambidexterity," an organizational capability that simultaneously pursue "exploration" and "exploitation" of knowledge. They enhance their organizational capability by forming and strengthening a wide range of "weak ties" and overcoming the three obstacles of technology, regulation, and market, to succeed in the medical equipment business.

Free Research Field

経営学