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This article proposes perspective-taking as an organizational capability to facilitate the knowledge integration that is widely posited as crucial to organizational learning and innovation. Building on psychological research at the individual level, the article examines how perspective-taking might be scaled to an organizational capability that can vary in strength and character. The article discusses how individual-level antecedents can be shaped to produce perspective-taking at the organizational level, and shows how perspective-taking capability might be a useful concept for strategic management by examining how it adds to absorptive capacity and ambidexterity research.

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In this essay we propose that considering ideas, or more specifically idea collections, should provide an important link between creativity and innovation. Ideas sit at the nexus between creativity and innovation, the point where one research stream has traditionally ended, and the other begun. Improving our understanding of samples, or collections of ideas, should provide a point of integration. To do this however, idea collections need to be built and shaped, maintained and, ultimately, used. In this brief article we comment on activities that should aid in building and shaping collections, developing collections of ideas to be more favorable to innovation processes, and using collections to extract more than single ideas to offer a variety of potentially fertile directions for future research.

We draw on 146 employee-co-worker-supervisor triads from 146 organizations to examine the role of individual perspective-taking and team creative environment in the association between individual creativity and organizational innovation. Adopting an interactionist perspective, we find that the link between individual creativity and organizational innovation is most clearly strengthened when individual perspective-taking and team creative environment are both high. Neither individual perspective-taking nor team creative environment alone moderated the relationship between creativity and innovation.