We develop management innovation theory, providing insights into the role of time in the implementation phase. The management innovation literature has sought to empirically identify factors that facilitate or hinder management innovation implementation from a static perspective. To address the evolution of these factors' resistance, a temporal perspective is appropriate, but an analysis of these factors' evolution over time is lacking. We identify the inhibiting factors that influence the management innovation implementation phase over time and address ways in which they evolve.We conduct a comparative longitudinal and dynamic analysis based on two intermediate-sized enterprises and address the obstacles that emerge during the implementation phase of a specific management innovation: lean manufacturing. Our results highlight different categories of inhibiting factors: some inhibiting factors appear at the beginning of the implementation phase with high intensity and then fade over time; conversely, other inhibiting factors appear later and then increase in intensity.
Les organisations à but non lucratif, après une croissante forte et une professionnalisation accrue, jouent aujourd’hui un rôle économique majeur. Ce travail a pour objectif d’identifier les spécificités de ces organisations favorisant leur profonde mutation organisationnelle et managériale. La combinaison suivante est apparue comme facteur déclencheur d’une innovation managériale : une culture organisationnelle spécifique intégrant l’innovation, une diversité du personnel conduisant à l’enrichissement des connaissances organisationnelles et une capacité à gérer la pression exercée par les bailleurs de fonds.
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