Change and innovation at the Canada School: an investigation into the antecedents of organizational ambidexterity
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Abstract
This case study examines the antecedents present in the transformation of the Canada School from its founding to its present state characterized by structural ambidexterity.It provides insights into how an organization's history affects the development of a shared value and belief system focused on continuously searching for new innovations, seizing upon them, and reconfiguring organizational assets to capitalize upon them.Through the use of a single case, the history of the Canada School is traced through five stages of growth.The Canada School was founded in order to deliver education to children with learning difficulties.This school was one of the first of its kind to be developed specifically for children with these challenges.In the beginning stages, the Canada School was forced to constantly move from location to location, culminating in its near closure.Because of an explicit decision to survive and grow, the senior leaders and employees of the Canada School developed a shared system of values and beliefs that led to a constant need to develop incremental innovations ( exploitation) along with radical innovations ( exploration).This need ultimately led the Canada School to adopt structural ambidexterity.This research finds evidence concurrent with hypotheses in ambidexterity research, including that (1) structural ambidexterity is superior to contextual ambidexterity in the simultaneous pursuit of exploration and exploitation; (2) inter-organizational relationships can act as a conduit of new knowledge that enhances an organization's ability to innovate; and (3) organizational history deeply affects and influences the beliefs and values of an organization, including management cognition as it relates to balancing exploration and exploitation activities.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".