Management innovation is a focal issue for academia and practice at all times. The paper makes a systemic picture of management innovation by induction and comparison from the rational perspective. Because of lacking the consistent definition of management innovation, the paper puts forward a definition based on an analysis of four key problems. Because there are many and disperse influencing factors of management innovation, the paper builds an integrated analysis framework based on summing up four different levels of analysis. Aiming at various methods of research on management innovation, the paper proposes that future research richly make use of multicase study method based on comparison of various methods. Finally, the paper further discusses four basis issues of future research.