Connecting the unconnected: Analogies and the development of insight in the absorptive capacity process

IF 3.7 3区 管理学 Q2 MANAGEMENT Creativity and Innovation Management Pub Date : 2023-03-11 DOI:10.1111/caim.12548
Desmond Ng, Leonardo Sánchez-Aragón
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While innovation has been widely attributed to a firm's absorptive capacity (AC), product and marketing studies have found that insight is central to a firm's creativity and innovation. Creativity and innovation studies have found that individuals often relate to external information through an analogical reasoning process and that this process develops insight into a firm's innovation. Although the AC concept has been associated with this insight, it however faces significant difficulties explaining its development. This is because AC has been defined by a social structure where myopic tendencies can preclude its individual members from assimilating new external experiences. As insight often requires an exposure to previously unconnected or unrelated experiences, this myopia can reduce a firm's ability to produce insight in its AC process. By drawing on an individual level analogical reasoning process, this study argues that a firm's coherence and uniqueness offer a social structure that not only leverages this individual level analogical reasoning process but also produces an assimilation that develops insight in the firm's AC process. In using a sample of US biotechnology firms, this study finds empirical support for these arguments to explain the development of insight in ways not possible with AC explanations.

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虽然创新被广泛归因于企业的吸收能力(AC),但产品和营销研究发现,洞察力是企业创造力和创新的核心。创造力和创新研究发现,个人通常通过类比推理过程与外部信息建立联系,而这一过程会对企业的创新产生洞察力。虽然交流概念与这种洞察力有关,但在解释其发展过程中却面临着巨大困难。这是因为交流是由一种社会结构来定义的,在这种社会结构中,近视倾向会阻碍个体成员吸收新的外部经验。由于洞察力往往需要接触到以前没有联系或不相关的经验,这种近视会降低企业在交流过程中产生洞察力的能力。通过借鉴个人层面的类比推理过程,本研究认为,企业的一致性和独特性提供了一种社会结构,它不仅能利用个人层面的类比推理过程,还能产生同化作用,从而在企业的交流过程中培养洞察力。本研究以美国生物技术公司为样本,发现了这些论点的实证支持,从而以交流解释所无法解释的方式解释了洞察力的发展。
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期刊介绍: Creativity and Innovation Management bridges the gap between the theory and practice of organizing imagination and innovation. The journal''s central consideration is how to challenge and facilitate creative potential, and how then to embed this into results-oriented innovative business development. The creativity of individuals, coupled with structured and well-managed innovation projects, creates a sound base from which organizations may operate effectively within their inter-organizational and societal environment. Today, successful operations must go hand in hand with the ability to anticipate future opportunities. Therefore, a cultural focus and inspiring leadership are as crucial to an organization''s success as efficient structural arrangements and support facilities. This is reflected in the journal''s contents: -Leadership for creativity and innovation; the behavioural side of innovation management. -Organizational structures and processes to support creativity and innovation; interconnecting creative and innovative processes. -Creativity, motivation, work environment/creative climate and organizational behaviour, creative and innovative entrepreneurship. -Deliberate development of creative and innovative skills including the use of a variety of tools such as TRIZ or CPS. -Creative professions and personalities; creative products; the relationship between creativity and humour; arts and amp; humanities side of creativity.
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