摘要：There are a growing number of studies that argue the importance of organizational ambidexterity for the sustained competitive advantage of firms. However, ambidexterity scholars have applied different definitions, conceptualizations and measures in their discussions of numerous significant and complex organizational phenomena and this has led to the divergence of this construct. The purpose of this article is to apply a bibliometric analysis, combined with the qualitative literature review, to reconcile the mixed results of prior studies and attain a more comprehensive understanding on how the ambidexterity field grew and evolved during the last 24 years. To map the intellectual structure of the ambidexterity fields, i.e. the structural pattern of citing behaviour among various scholars, we performed a citation and co-citation analysis. Our findings highlight the intellectual base articles in the ambidexterity field and synthesize the various insights on the conceptualizations of ambidexterity in extant research, which may be used as a starting point to understanding the origins of the field.
关键词：organisational ambidexterity; literature review; bibliometrics; co-citation; science mapping
