Balancing innovation and exploitation in the fourth industrial revolution: Role of intellectual capital and technology absorptive capacity.

ABSTRACT: Industry 4.0, which features the Internet of things (IoT), cloud computing, big-data, digitalization, and cyber-physical systems, is transforming the way businesses are being run. It is making the business processes more autonomous, automated and intelligent, and is transmuting the organizational structures of businesses by digitalizing their end-to-end business processes. In this context, balancing innovation and exploitation-organization's ambidexterity-while stepping into the fourth industrial revolution can be critical for organizational capability. This study examines the role of intellectual capital (IC)-human capital, structural capital and relational capital-in balancing the innovation and exploitation activities. It also examines the role of technology's absorptive c

SUBMITTER: Mahmood T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7439089 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature