“…The role played by leadership is undeniably quite pertinent to organizational survival and essential to the development of an ambidextrous organization (Jansen, Tempelaar, Van den Bosch & Volberda, 2009;Cao, Simsek & Zhang, 2010;Rosing, Frese & Bausch, 2011;Tushman et al, 2011). Leader role is important for the development of systems, structures and cultures that support the assimilation of knowledge during mergers (Kavanagh & Ashkanasy, 2006), and successful integration following M&As (Vasilaki, 2011). Scholars indicate that contextual factors such as senior team integration helps in balanced resource allocation, forms cross-fertilization and synergies towards ambidextrous activities (e.g., Jansen et al 2008), and the ambidexterity performance link is also suggested to be the outcome of contextual variables and it is positively related to performance (Junni et al, 2013).…”