A Study on Ambidextrousness of R&D Organization in ICT Companies

The purpose of this research is to examine the reason why Japanese ICT companies have not gained competitive advantages in the global markets by focusing on the problem of R&D organizational form in innovation, especially from the perspective of ambidextrous organization. We propose an exploration degree to measure the ambidextrousness of R&D organization that is calculated by social network analysis and text analytics method. As a result, the exploration degree on Japanese ICT companies are lower than foreign rival company which means Japanese companies tend to emphasize the exploitation type innovation and lack for explorational innovation.