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Abstract

Organizations are continually challenged to increase efficiency and improve performance despite frequent cuts to personnel and budgets. These challenges force organizations to identify, develop, and diffuse various management innovations. Diffusion efforts are often met by resistance, reluctance, or ambivalence, resulting in what many consider to be a fool’s errand. While management innovation may not be the forte of large, bureaucratic organizations, we present a case study of a U.S. Air Force maintenance, repair, and overhaul organization that has recently, and successfully, diffused a large-scale management innovation. Results from the case study support the development of a diffusion of innovation framework that identifies important mechanisms associated with the acceptance, routinization, and assimilation of management innovation. The framework informs leaders of the diffusion process, while the recommended actions ofrelentlessleadership, deliberate development of personnel, and enterprise involvement drive diffusion efforts and help leaders achieve desired results in innovation diffusion and associated performance improvement. Overall, we assert that the pursuit of management innovation is not necessarily beyond the art of the possible for business leaders.

5. Good stewards of shareholder and taxpayer dollars

Failure to effectively diffuse managementinnovation has been described as the primary bottleneck to progress (Stata, 1989). Moreover, management innovation is difficult to diffuse (Kuratko, Covin, & Hornsby, 2014), particularly in large, bureaucratic organizations(Thompson, 1965).However,aswehave shown, management innovation diffusion is not necessarily beyond the art of the possible. Herein, we described a case study involving a large organization and uncovered mechanismsthat describe and support the management innovation diffusion process. Organizations must be especially deliberate about efforts to diffuse management innovation and, despite opinions to the contrary, can leverage bureaucracy to their advantage. In our case study, we saw leaders using bureaucratic means (i.e., organizational structure, formal governance systems) to their advantage to achieve innovation diffusion and performance objectives (Craig, 1995). As innovation diffusion progresses, however, the organizations must continue to evolve, pursuing innovations through a more bottom-up approach to ensure sustainability (Leonard-Barton, 1992; Vego, 2013). When successful in these efforts, organizations can become innovative and efficient organizations that are good stewards of shareholder or taxpayer dollars (Sarkees & Hulland, 2009).