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Title:: Organizational Ambidexterity, Innovation Synergy andCorporate Performance: Moderating Effects of Strategic Alignment

Keywords:: organizational ambidexterity; innovation synergy; corporate performance; strategic alignment

Abstract:: There are relatively large research gaps regarding synergy between technological innovation and management innovation, as well as its mechanism and function boundary for corporate performance. Based on organizational ambidexterity and synergy theory, this paper analyzes dynamic synergy between technological innovation ambidexterity and management innovation. Also, it investigates effects of synergy between exploratory technological innovation and management innovation and of that between exploitative technological innovation and management innovation on corporate short-term and long-term performance. Researches show that both obliviously improve corporate performance: the former contributes more to long-term performance, while the latter contributes more to short-term performance. Besides, the paper discusses moderating effects of strategic alignment. Results demonstrate that strategic alignment has positive moderating effects on the relationship between innovation synergy and corporate performance; that is, the more consistent strategic alignment is, the more obvious promoting effects of innovation synergy on performance are.