TY - CHAP U1 - Konferenzveröffentlichung A1 - Selig, Christoph J. A1 - Baltes, Guido H. T1 - Strengthening Organizational Ambidexterity through Corporate Entrepreneurship Activities T2 - 26th IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC), 15-17 June 2020, Cardiff, UK, virtual N2 - In today's volatile world, established companies must be capable of optimizing their core business with incremental innovations while simultaneously developing discontinuous innovations to maintain their long-term competitiveness. Balancing both is a major challenge for companies, since different types of innovation require different organizational structures, operational modes and management styles. Established companies tend to excel in improving their current business through incremental innovations which are closely related to their current knowledge base and competencies. However, this often goes hand in hand with challenges in the exploration of knowledge that is new to the company and that is essential for the development of discontinuous innovations. In this respect, the concept of corporate entrepreneurship is recognized as a way to strengthen the exploration of new knowledge and to support the development of discontinuous innovation. For managing corporate entrepreneurship more effectively, it is crucial to understand which types of knowledge can be created through corporate entrepreneurship and which organizational designs are more suited to gain certain types of knowledge. To answer these questions, this study analyzed 23 semi-structured interviews conducted with established companies that are running such entrepreneurial activities. The results show (1) that three general types of knowledge can be explored through corporate entrepreneurship and (2) that some organizational designs are more suited to explore certain knowledge types than others are. KW - Organizational ambidexterity KW - Corporate entrepreneurship KW - Corporate venturing KW - Knowledge exploration KW - Discontinuous innovation Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-1-7281-7037-4 SB - 978-1-7281-7037-4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/ICE/ITMC49519.2020.9198426 DO - https://doi.org/10.1109/ICE/ITMC49519.2020.9198426 N1 - Volltextzugriff für Angehörige der Hochschule Konstanz via Datenbank IEEE Xplore möglich SP - 9 S1 - 9 PB - IEEE ER -