SusTec article accepted for publication in Organization Science
An article by SusTec members Jan Ossenbrink, Joern Hoppmann, and Volker Hoffmann, which studies the change in the largest four electric utility companies during the energy transition, was recently accepted for publication in "Organization Science".
In the article entitled "Hybrid Ambidexterity: How the Environment Shapes Incumbents' Use of Structural and Contextual Approaches" the authors use a qualitative case study to investigate how the four largest German electricity suppliers went about addressing the two main challenges of "renewable energies" and "business models for distributed electricity generation". The article shows that the organizations chose very different approaches to address the two challenges and draws on these differences to advance the literature on organizational learning and ambidexterity. Moreover, the findings in the article can be used to derive more general implications for the transformation of firms toward sustainability.