Ambidextría organizativa y emprendimiento corporativo. Influencia del entorno y del carácter familiar

Abstract

Organizational ambidexterity is the ability that allows organizations to achieve high levels of exploitation (focusing on the existing combination product/market in order to gain efficiency) and exploration (search for new opportunities to generate innovation). Corporate entrepreneurship, as the ability to innovate, business venturing and strategies renewal, has become a necessary process in companies, since it reports high performance and allows long-term survival. This paper aims to investigate the relationship between organizational ambidexterity and corporate entrepreneurship, and its relationship with business results, through the approach of four different models. For the analysis, from the information coming from companies of the secondary sector, we use the PLS-SEM technique through the program SmartPLS 3, v.3.2.6. On the one hand, family enterprises are the central axis of business activity worldwide and have particular characteristics, derived from the confluence of the family, property and management, which give them advantages and disadvantages when comparing with non-family businesses. In addition, the analysis of environmental variables is one of vital importance for the adaptability and survival of current organizations. Because of those reason, familiness and the uncertainty of the environment are the moderating variables we have used in the analysis of relations of the models proposed, concluding, on the one hand, that the dynamism and hostility of the environment influence the business results and, on the other hand, that there are differences between family and non-family companies in their relationship between entrepreneurship and results.