Purpose: Past studies have associated top management’s paradoxical cognition and actions with the ambidextrous performance of firms. Compared to large firms, the top management members of small firms play a focal role in resolving the paradoxical tensions of explorative and exploitative...

Research on organisational ambidexterity (OA); the simultaneous pursuit of explorative and exploitative innovation, has been reviewed in the past. Yet, we lack knowledge of the changes in OA research over time, which could help us understand how today’s OA research has been shaped and can be...