What kind of archive data is available? Data on organizational structures, data on patent applications, ...? Depending on this, one would have to make corresponding considerations, I think...
In 1996, Tushman and O'Reilly mooted organizational ambidexterity (or the ability to concurrently exploit old certainties and explore new opportunities) as a big idea to overcome inertia and implement innovation and change. Understanding Tushman and O'Reilly's deceptively simple definition is one thing but making it a reality is another: the difficulty has to do with the number of drivers to be managed for harmony and the fact that organizational configurations for exploitation and exploration are not one and the same.