Management innovation

While the term “innovation” in economic science aims at the implementation of a technical or process-related innovation, management innovation means changing the framework conditions in which organizations are structured and managed.

Examples of management innovations would be heterarchical instead of hierarchical structures ( Warren McCulloch ), lateral instead of horizontal networks ( Heinz von Foerster ), "adhocratic" instead of bureaucratic structures ( Alvin Toffler ), cross-border knowledge networking ( Bernhard von Mutius ), post-heroic instead of heroic self-image ( Dirk Baecker ) . Since managers ultimately determine the distribution of resources, product and process innovations in this sense can be the results of management innovations. When management begins to understand itself as communication in the sense of sociological management theory, innovations today can be controlled either by classical (incremental) or post-classical (groundbreaking) management models. Management innovation also describes the influence that management practitioners with innovative management models exert on management theory and other managers, or that management philosophy exerts on managers (see: WW Weber).

See also

• cybernetics
• management
• Manager
• Management philosophy
• Systems theory
• Organizational sociology

literature

• Becker, Lutz / Gora, Walter / Ehrhardt, Johannes (2008), leadership, innovation and change, symposium, Düsseldorf. ISBN 9783939707059
• Hamel, Gary (2006); The Why, What and How of Management Innovation; in; Harvard Business Review; February 2006; pp. 72–84 *
• Hamel, Gary (2007); The Future of Management; Perseus Distribution Services, October 2007
• Hamel, Gary (2008); The end of management; Econ; February 2008
• Weber, Winfried W. (2005): Innovation through Injunction, Göttingen: Sordon, p. 44ff