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How Do Managers Make the Decision of Adoptinga Management Innovation?

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This chapter aims to address why some managers pursue innovative opportunities by introducing new management practices while others do not in China, and what characteristics of managers affect their decision of introducing new practices and how. Data on 237 manages from different firms were collected to further examines the model, so as to uncover the affecting paths and internal mechanism of complicated decision. The results indicates that innovation intention, knowledge acquirement and risk perception directly affect management innovation decision level; innovation intention, knowledge acquirement and risk perception are influenced by entrepreneurial orientation, social network and cognitive biases of managers respectively; besides the three relevantly independent affecting paths, interrelations also exist cross paths; the three main factors produce both direct and indirect effect simultaneously.

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Lin, H. (2018). How Do Managers Make the Decision of Adoptinga Management Innovation?. In: Adoptive Management Innovation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7712-8_4

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