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, and focusing on its nature. It also establishes a process framework through which adoptive management innovation occurs, explores how individual characteristics of individual managers affect their adoption decision, examines the effects of a firm's dynamic capability on each phase of adoptive innovation, and addresses how intangible management innovation supports the process of tangible product innovation to produce effects. By exploring the process, adoption decision, drivers and effects of adoptive management innovation, the book offers abundant applications for managerial practice.

Presents a two-subprocess framework consisting of adoption decision and implementation Describes a three-dimension decision framework Offers a measuring scale for adoptive management innovation Discusses the positive effects of dynamic capability on the whole innovation process Provides a general framework that explicates the effects of management innovation

Autorentext
Haifen Lin is an Associate Professor at Faculty of Management and Economics of Dalian University of Technology, where she also received her Ph.D. Her research focuses on management innovation in China and is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Project (71572025, 71302045, 71372082), the National Social Science Fund of China (13FGL004), the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China (2014T70256), the Scientific Research Fund of Liaoning Provincial Education Department (W2013019, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central UniversitiesDUT15RW214.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2literature review.- Chpater 3The process of adoptive management innovation.- Chapter 4. The decision making of adoptive management innovation.- Chapter 5. The driver of adoptive management innovation.- Chapter 6. The effects of adoptive management innovation.- Chapter 7Conclusion.