The Analysis of Effective Factors Affecting Organizational Ambidexterity in the Ministry of Sports and Youth with an Interpretive Structural Modeling Approach

Purpose: The goal of this study was the analysis of effective factors affecting organizational ambidexterity in the ministry of sports and youth with an interpretive structural modeling approach. Methods: The research methodology was mixed method and the plan was exploratory. The statistical population of this study consisted of experts who were selected purposefully based on theoretical saturation of 15 of them. In-depth and semi-structured interviews were used to collect data in the qualitative study and a questionnaire was used to collect data in the quantitative study. In order to evaluate the quality and validity of the findings, validation, transfer, reliability and verification, and for analyzing qualitative study data, coding and quantitative study of interpretive structural modeling (ISM) and software ISM software were used. Results: As a result of qualitative data analysis, 14 factors affecting organizational ambidexterity were identified and as a result of quantitative data analysis these factors were classified into five levels, and in the meantime, organizational culture, job characteristics and organizational capabilities were in the most rich layer, Conclusion: This shows that cultural, organizational and job capacities needed for this phenomenon to move in the complex path of organizational dualism at the beginning. Adapting from the findings, it is suggested to the Ministry of Sports and Youth to prepare the field for entrepreneurship and innovation in order to accept the duality and in their policies, the ability to use the existing situation (exploitation) and use the opportunity, for growth and survival in the future (exploration) as the two wings of the movement of organizations to predict two disadvantages in their plans.