A Study on Distribution of Personnel on Ambidextrous R&D Organization Based on Social Network Analysis and Text Analytics

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to clarify the reason why Japanese ICT companies have not gained competitive advantages in the global markets by taking notice of the problem of R&D organizational form in innovation, especially from the standpoint of ambidextrous organization. We proposed an exploration degree to measure the ambidextrousness of R&D organization that is calculated by social network analysis and text analytics method. This paper describes the relationship between the exploration degree based on the algorithm and some indices related to the personnel distribution of group members. As a result, the characteristics of the organizational structure that lead to a high degree of exploration is revealed.