PT Telkom Indonesia (Persero) Tbk is facing disruption that changes consumer behavior to communicate using online applications such as WhatsApp, Line, Telegram, and Slack, resulting in a decrease in demand and growth of company revenues since 2017. The disruption phenomenon requires Telkom to be able to produce innovations through startups that can become the main business for the company in the future. In improving innovation performance, companies need to adopt a process of strategic entrepreneurship that can build dynamic capabilities to improve innovation performance in a disruptive environment. For strategic entrepreneurship to run effectively, it requires organizational ambidexterity that has an organizational structure that can support the dual needs of opportunity-seeking (OSA) and advantage-seeking (ASA) activities. This study further examines the effectiveness of the influence of strategic entrepreneurship, dynamic capabilities, and organizational ambidexterity on innovation performance. The data in this study were obtained from a survey conducted to the top management of 62 startups that are part of the portfolio of PT Telkom Indonesia (Persero), then used PLS-SEM analysis to test the research hypotheses. The results show that strategic entrepreneurship influences dynamic capabilities, organizational ambidexterity, and innovation performance, but the dimension of entrepreneurial culture has a minimum effect or is not significant in influencing innovation performance in startups. This is contrary to the theory that strategic entrepreneurship has a relationship with innovation performance. This study provides intriguing findings and theoretical contributions in explaining the phenomenon of low innovation performance for startups that run organizational ambidexterity.
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