Management innovation made in China: Haier’s Rendanheyi

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 hiera...

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Main Authors: Frynas, J.G (Author), Mellahi, K. (Author), Mol, M.J (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publications Ltd 2018
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Summary: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. © The Regents of the University of California 2018.
ISBN:00081256 (ISSN)
DOI:10.1177/0008125618790244