We tested our hypotheses using questionnaire survey by 7 internet firms which 132 questionnaires from Alibaba, Baidu, Meituan, Dianping, Beibei, TP-link and Maxio. Choosing internet firms are appropriate for two reasons:first,as a most representing firm in China nowadays internet firms became high speed developing and high technology.Turnover and restructuring,technology change and extreme events happened in these firms frequently and so that they believe organizational adaption is a critical driver of firm success.Study on disruption events and learning should be appropriate in these sample.Second,exploitation and exploration learning has huge distinguish results in organizational adaption using internet firms because internet firms′ characteristic.Thus,we believe choosing internet firms are appropriate for our study.In addition,in our setting, the questionnaire survey consist of two phases: First of all,we invited 10 internet firm engineers for interview, questioned about organization learning status when disruption events happened such as turnover,restructuring,technology change and extreme events. Furthermore,snowballing 10 internet engineers from Alibaba, Baidu, Meituan, Dianping, Beibei, TP-link and Maxio (which Alibaba, Baidu, Dianping and Beibei are software internet firms and others are hardware internet firms ) to send 200 questionnaires to them, 157 questionnaires recovered and 132 valid. The questionnaire recovery rate is 66%.

Our results show that, as predicted,the disruption events dimension moderate the relationship between exploration routine and exploitation routine in their complementary effect on organizational adaptation.This finding is consistent with the routine race and dynamic disruption arguments proposed by Edward and Madsen&Desai and more developments in that domain.However,the more importance,we find that compared with exploration routine,the positive influence of exploitation routine on organizational adaptation is stronger in first-phase disruption events not supported.Exploration and exploitation both have significant and positive effect to organization adaptation in first-phase disruption,but our empirical research results shows exploration routine on organization adaptation is stronger in inside disruption.This yields two reasons for this results.First,exploitation routine benefits organization adaptation not only needs tacit knowledge, but also depends on organization strong tie.First-phase disruption including restructuring,employee turnover and task change render organization adaptation needs more heterogenicity explicit knowledge and weak tie.Second,exploration routine render organization  have more long-term recover ability which is more benefits for organization adaptation in inside disruption.Another hypothesis is supported which compared with exploitation routine,the positive influence of exploration routine on organizational adaptation is stronger in second-phase disruption events.Surprisingly,prior literature always highlight exploitation and exploration both benefits for organization,our empirical research results shows under the outside disruption condition,exploitation routine has significant and negative effects on organization adaptation.This results suggestive of the possibility that the different routine method influences the organization adaptation distinct way.

First,this paper suggests important roles for disruption actors in setting the exploration and exploitation on organization adaptation.We found first-phase disruption and outside disruption not harm but benefits for organization adaptation.Our research is among the first to conceptualize,operationalize,and measure disruption events and examine its effect on organizational adaptation. We depart the disruption events for two parts:first-phase disruption including restructuring,employee turnover and task change which happened inside organization environment,as a comparison, outside disruption including market structure change,technology change and extreme events which happened outside organization environment, we highlight exploration and exploitation routine effect organizational adaptation dissimilarity under the inside or outside disruption.Such disparate influence is an important part of dual routine and organization government,and perhaps even undervalued,in the literature.

Second,our research provides a new perspective to understand the different way to gain the organizational adaptation.In particular,this paper′s perspective suggests that through exploration routine and exploitation routine,organization members can survive from turnover,restructuring,technology and task change,extreme events depends on exploration which including weak tie between individual and explicit knowledge acquirement,or exploitation which including strong tie and tacit knowledge acquirement to gain organisational adaptation. Furthermore,our perspective implies that effectiveness of choosing different way gain better adaptation to firm environment under the dissimilarity disruption events,it may be promising to investigate how a firm′s routine under the disruption events and choose different way to gain a better performance.In essence,our results suggest important interactions between dual routine method and organizational adaptation under the inside and second-phase disruption events.

Finally,our research also implications for the burgeoning stream on dual routine. Prior literature always suggested that exploration and exploitation benefits for organization performance,the distinct between exploration routine and exploitation routine highlights the long-term and short-term performance and different tie and knowledge individual gain from the routine.However,our research argued that under different circumstance exploration routine and exploitation routine may negative for organizational adaptation.For example,strong tie and tacit knowledge will be useless or obsolete when technology or task change.On the other hand,organization member turnover not only hurts organization performance but also disrupts existing knowledge and routine for interacting and accomplishing tasks.Thus,our study provides a new sights to understanding exploration and exploitation for organizational adaptation.

This paper′s findings also contribute to the research and practice of organizational governance. Our study′s framework suggests that routine method show dissimilarity effect on organizational adaptation. Indeed, we find exploration routine and exploitation routine improve rates,differences and associated with first-phase disruption and outside disruption.Speculatively, firm adaptational developing process could potentially raise by different routine method under the disparate circumstances. In particular,this paper′s results highlight which routine method could be better when turnover and restructuring,technology and task change or extreme events happened. It suggests firm how to get organizational adaptation or performance through choosing routine method when disruption events occurred.