Adoptive Management Innovation

This book discusses adoptive management innovation, which has been successfully implemented in other areas. It proposes a theory on this field by considering the importance and popularity of adoptive management innovation in China and around the globe, an

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Adoptive Management Innovation

Adoptive Management Innovation

Haifen Lin

Adoptive Management Innovation

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Haifen Lin Faculty of Management and Economics Dalian University of Technology Dalian China

ISBN 978-981-10-7711-1 ISBN 978-981-10-7712-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7712-8

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Preface

As competition intensifies and globalization accelerates, innovation has been considered as a main source of competitive advantage and economic growth. Although there are abundant academic research and writings on innovation, most focus on technological innovation and its potential for producing explicit and significant benefits. This was until Stata argued that the bottleneck of many U.S. companies was management innovation, rather than technological innovation. Management innovation is particularly prerequisites and facilitates efficient use of technical products and process innovations, thus improving organizational performance through productivity, lead times, quality, and flexibility. Hence, it has become one of the most important and sustainable sources of competitive advantage. Henceforward, management innovation has attracted extensive attention to realize its critical contributions to long-term success of firms. Literatures present that there are two types of management innovation: one refers to a practice or a structure, which is new to the state of the art without known precedent and named as generating innovation; and the other one refers to something that is novel