Print Email Facebook Twitter Fostering Ambidextrous Innovation Strategies in Large Infrastructure Projects Title Fostering Ambidextrous Innovation Strategies in Large Infrastructure Projects: A Team Heterogeneity Perspective Author Zhang, Xinyue (Tongji University) Le, Yun (Tongji University) Liu, Y. (TU Delft Integral Design & Management) Chen, Xiaoyan (Tongji University) Date 2021 Abstract In emerging economies, infrastructure projects are in full swing. There is a wealth of replicable experience for exploitation. Simultaneously, more technologies and methodologies require further exploration. This makes fostering ambidextrous innovation strategies (i.e., the tradeoff between exploitative and exploratory innovation strategies) a common and vital practical issue. Large infrastructure projects are unique one-off endeavors but have somewhat repetitive and persistent characteristics. It is a particular “intermediate” form between temporary projects and permanent organizations. Previous research on fostering ambidextrous innovation strategies cannot simply be replicated in large infrastructure projects. To address this issue, this article investigates the relationship between team heterogeneity and ambidextrous innovation strategies and also the role of team learning and identification in large infrastructure projects. Data were collected from 269 responses from 31 large infrastructure project delivery teams in China. The findings show that team heterogeneity has a positive linear effect on exploratory and ambidextrous innovation strategies and an inverted U-shaped effect on exploitative innovation strategies; team heterogeneity can better foster ambidextrous innovation strategies through improving team learning; the moderating role of team identification in the overall mechanism differs from the usual assumptions in permanent organizations. Overall, this article extends the existing ambidexterity research in the “intermediate” form between temporary projects and permanent organizations. It provides insights and guidance on fostering ambidextrous innovation strategies in large infrastructure projects. Subject Ambidextrous innovation strategiesEducationFocusinglarge infrastructure projectMergingMeteorologyOrganizationsTask analysisteam heterogeneityteam identificationteam learningTechnological innovation To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:45361cb1-0faa-4393-9699-839e83e7ce73 DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2021.3074431 ISSN 0018-9391 Source IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 70 (6), 2257-2267 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2021 Xinyue Zhang, Yun Le, Y. Liu, Xiaoyan Chen Files PDF TEM3074431.pdf 2.25 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:45361cb1-0faa-4393-9699-839e83e7ce73/datastream/OBJ/view