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Record W4417194032 · doi:10.1504/ijcm.2025.150333

Exploratory and exploitative leadership compared: evidence from China

2025· article· en· W4417194032 on OpenAlexaff
John W. Medcof, Lynda Jiwen Song

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Comparative Management · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicJob Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAmbidexterityScope (computer science)TriageChinaExploratory researchProcess (computing)

Abstract

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Organisational ambidexterity studies are advanced by comparing intra-departmental and extra-departmental leadership and introducing a triage model which explains a previously overlooked process for achieving ambidexterity. Organisations triage significant high uncertainty challenges to ad hoc projects outside the established departmental structure for exploratory management (extra-departmental), and triage lower uncertainty challenges to established departments for exploitative management (intra-departmental). The data support this proposition, and that most managers take on significant amounts of extra-departmental leadership as well as their intra-departmental. The data reveal that exploratory leadership involves more objectives development, communication and legitimisation, than does exploitative. Managers perceive that intra-departmental work is more important for career advancement than extra-departmental. This research extends the scope of ambidexterity research in China with a Chinese sample. It extends our understanding of ambidexterity in several ways and provides theory and results which promise to enrich future research, managerial practice and cross-cultural comparisons.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.418
Threshold uncertainty score0.557

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.002
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.104
GPT teacher head0.329
Teacher spread0.225 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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