Creative and innovative management has come to be seen as essential in a world buffeted by rapid and dramatic change. Initially seen as characteristic of dynamic, entrepreneurial organizations, creative and innovative management is now seen as critical to the survival of large bureaucracies, whether they are part of the public or the private sectors.
This volume draws together major management scholars and strategists who examine the forces and factors that enhance or inhibit creative and innovative activities in large organizations. Examples are drawn from the United States and Japan as well as Eastern Europe and China. This volume is essential reading for academics and researchers, as well as practioners, charting the future of large corporations and government bureaucracies in a world of turbulent change.
| Tables and Figures | ||
| Orientation and Overview | ||
| Pt. I | Creative and Innovative Management: Background and Setting | |
| 1 | The Growth and Internationalization of Creative and Innovative Management | 3 |
| Pt. II | Dynamic Change in Diverse Political and Economic Environments | |
| 2 | The American Administrative Style: A Costly Inheritance | 21 |
| 3 | Plan for Transition to a Market Economy in the Soviet Union: The Five-Hundred-Day Mandate | 51 |
| 4 | Hungarian Transformation: Challenge for Innovation | 65 |
| 5 | China's Reform | 81 |
| 6 | Management of Change in a Large Japanese Monopoly | 91 |
| Comments on Dynamic Change in Diverse Political and Economic Environments | 105 | |
| Pt. III | Restructuring Large-Scale Bureaucracies for Creativity and Innovation | |
| 7 | Creativity and Innovation in Large Organizations | 111 |
| 8 | How to Make Entrepreneurship Work in Established Companies | 131 |
| 9 | Reassessing Human Resources in Large-Scale Bureaucracies | 151 |
| 10 | Innovation in Large NASA R&D Programs | 157 |
| 11 | Introducing Creativity in Educational Bureaucracies | 175 |
| 12 | Continuous Quality Improvement in Health-Care Services | 181 |
| 13 | Sustaining Excellence in the Twenty-First Century: A Vision and Strategies for the University of California's Administration | 205 |
| 14 | Strategic Alliances for Japanese Mid-Sized Firms | 227 |
| Pt. IV | New Technologies for Inducing and Measuring Creative and Innovative Management | |
| 15 | Generating Creativity and Innovation: A Marketing Perspective | 245 |
| 16 | A Managerial Tool for Diagnosing Structural Readiness for Breakthrough Innovations in Large Bureaucracies (Technocracies) | 257 |
| 17 | Forecasting Manpower Supply and Demand at Different Stages of Industrial Development: Strategies and Methodologies | 283 |
| 18 | Identifying the Scope for Creative and Innovative Management in Large Bureaucracies: An Ordinal Time Series Analysis Approach | 297 |
| 19 | Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems: Potential and Problems for Large-Scale Bureaucracies | 319 |
| 20 | A Survey of Needs for Human-Friendly Fuzzy Systems | 355 |
| 21 | Discovery Engineering and Negotiating Organizational Change | 377 |
| 22 | Leadership for Creativity in Organizations: A Prototypical Case of Leading Multidisciplinary Teams of Professionals | 385 |
| A Personal Summary | 393 | |
| Index | 397 | |
| About the RGK Foundation | 407 | |
| About the IC[superscript 2] Institute | 409 | |
| About the Editor and Contributors | 411 |
Overview
Creative and innovative management has come to be seen as essential in a world buffeted by rapid and dramatic change. Initially seen as characteristic of dynamic, entrepreneurial organizations, creative and innovative management is now seen as critical to the survival of large bureaucracies, whether they are part of the public or the private sectors.
This volume draws together major management scholars and strategists who examine the forces and factors that enhance or inhibit ...