Enacting resilience through entrepreneurial ambidexterity in technologically turbulent emerging economies

Identifier:  imarina:9551845

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/imarina9551845

Authors:  Shatila, Khodor; Aranega, Alba Yela; Soga, Lebene Richmond; Hernandez-Lara, Ana Beatriz

Abstract:
This study examines how firms operating in emerging-economy contexts build organizational resilience, emphasizing the entrepreneurial mechanisms through which strategic resources are transformed into adaptive capacity. Drawing on perspectives from international entrepreneurship and dynamic capabilities, the study argues that entrepreneurial ambidexterity is a core factor enabling firms to navigate uncertainty and technological turbulence. Using survey data from 588 firms across multiple industries in Middle Eastern countries, the study employs structural equation modeling to test mediation and moderation effects. The findings show that organizational capabilities and resource alignment enhance organizational resilience primarily through entrepreneurial ambidexterity, which facilitates opportunity exploration and exploitation under volatile conditions. Technological turbulence further conditions these relationships, shaping the effectiveness of entrepreneurial responses to environmental change. By theorizing resilience as an entrepreneurial outcome rather than a static organizational attribute, this study advances international entrepreneurship research by explaining how firms in emerging markets enact resilience through ambidextrous entrepreneurial action in turbulent international environments. The findings extend dynamic capabilities theory by demonstrating how international and technological turbulence jointly influence entrepreneurial adaptation beyond developed-economy settings.