Abstract
How do CEOs’ personal experiences outside the work domain affect organizational ambidexterity? Our study explores the underlying mechanisms through CEO family-to-work enrichment (FWE), the degree to which family experiences improve the quality of work and affect organizational ambidexterity. We demonstrate that CEOs who experience a higher level of FWE prefer to carry out distant and persistent information search activities. Consequently, the firm is more successful in achieving organizational ambidexterity. We find strong empirical support for our hypothesis with a two-round sample of 136 CEOs from China. This study provides several theoretical and managerial implications.
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