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Managing Culture for Management Innovation

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Human Resource Development in Vietnam

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Management innovation refers to the implementation of management ideas, practices, tools, or structures that are new to the adopting organization. Organizational performance and other innovation successes are found to be closely related to management innovation. Organizations all over the world, hence, are constantly looking to invent or adopt management innovation in their organizations. With the role of change agents, HRD professionals are increasingly involved in management innovation. Yet, the success rate for implementing management innovation is low and our knowledge on management innovation in Vietnam is limited. In this chapter, we provide an introduction to management innovation and its determinants and development in Vietnam. We describe emerging management innovations in Vietnam and discuss several challenges for their implementation in which organizational culture appears to be a critical factor. Further implications for research and practice are also presented.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Vinamilk is currently the biggest diary company in Vietnam.

  2. 2.

    “Modern” management practices refer to ones with a theoretical or analytical foundation.

  3. 3.

    Vingroup Joint Stock Company (Vingroup JSC), formerly known as Technocom, was founded in Ukraine in 1993 by an ambitious group of Vietnamese youths. Website: http://www.vingroup.net/.

  4. 4.

    https://lms.vingroup.net/.

  5. 5.

    https://www.pwc.com/vn/en/media/media-articles/180102-vbf-grant-dennis-en.pdf.

  6. 6.

    https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/vietnam/overview.

  7. 7.

    EVN’s website: https://evn.com.vn/.

  8. 8.

    Vingroup’s website: https://vingroup.net/vi/gioi-thieu/tam-nhin-su-menh-va-gia-tri-cot-loi.

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Nguyen, L.A., Hoang, A.L.T. (2021). Managing Culture for Management Innovation. In: Tran, H.T., Phuong, T.T., Van, H.T.M., McLean, G.N., Ashwill, M.A. (eds) Human Resource Development in Vietnam. Palgrave Macmillan Asian Business Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51533-1_10

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