How much is too much - equilibrium points for good export and R&D intensity: Data of world top 2000 companies

Dynamic capabilities, as vehicles to cope with environmental changes, have become extremely popular due to constantly high environmental turbulence. There exist wide variety of capabilities, two most popular ones in globalized and fast changing world are R&D and export. From exploration-exploitation perspective of company, both capabilities have explorative tendencies, interdependent to each-other and fighting for the same resources - can they successfully co-exist? Data from the world top 2000 companies - including Shell, Samsung and Johnson & Johnson - provide evidence for successful ambidexterity of capabilities. As an interesting outcome, both capabilities independently have own equilibrium point for successful operation. Findings indicate that top companies´ equilibrium point for export intensity is around 61% and for R&D intensity around 30%.