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Management Innovation Made in China: Haier’s Rendanheyi

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: Emerging market companies create new management practices for an environment characterized by increased volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA). This article shows how Haier developed a platform of management practices called Rendanheyi to transform itself from a conventional hierarchical manufacturing firm to a highly responsive online-based entrepreneurial company. It demonstrates how the organizational, competitive, institutional, and technological contexts mattered for the development of Rendanheyi, showing how context-dependent management innovations are created to allow emerging market firms such as Haier to deal with a high VUCA world and creating an extended process model of management innovation that managers can readily apply.

Source: California Management Review

DOI: 10.1177/0008125618790244

Authors: Jedrzej George Frynas, Michael J. Mol, Kamel Mellahi

Institutions: The Open University, Copenhagen Business School, University of Birmingham, University of Warwick

Language: English

Topic: Organizational Management and Leadership

Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2885778334

FWCI: 6.371

Cites: 22

Cited by: 156

Related to: 10