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RESEARCH ON THE AMBIDEXTROUS ORGANIZATION SOLVING THE ‘ALEXANDER DILEMMA’: BASED ON THE DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION ABSTRACT Year 1997, the professor Christensen of the Harvard University put forward the theory of ‘Disruptive Innovation’ for the first time, which provided new strategic way for latecomer firm overstepping incumbent firm. It seems that the incumbent firm can’t breakthrough the inertia of the organization and operation, thus into the dilemma of the short-term benefit and long-term interest and toward failure and destruction which is called ‘Alexander Dilemma’. This paper demonstrates the process of the incumbent firm falling into the ‘Alexander Dilemma’ by the cases of the semiconductor industry and the iron and steel industry of USA, based on the prospect of the incumbent firm. Then the paper analyses the reason of ‘Alexander Dilemma’ from internal and external point of view by the tools of S-curve and game theory. It illustrates that the core rigidities, path dependence and organizational inertia of the incumbent firm restraint the innovation; from the market point of view, by the restraint of sunk costs and high expected profits, the innovation driven of the incumbent firm is low. Then III the incumbent firm will input less resource to the disruptive innovation leading to its failure. This paper points out that the ambidextrous organization would be a useful way for the incumbent firm solving ‘Alexander Dilemma’ by the related research on the ambidextrous organization. After the description of the ambidextrous organization theory, this paper analyses the innovation cases of 3M, A