Based on 299 papers relating to management innovation from national and international journals， the determinants and mechanisms of management innovation reflected are compared and analyzed. This study draws out the inspiration of management innovation under Chinese context, and it is found that：the determinants of management innovation are generally distributed in the entrepreneur，management team and organization at three levels and with six dimensions，and the effects of the concrete factors and mechanism are consistent, but there is also some heterogeneity，which mainly displays that foreign researches pay more attention to senior management team，while the domestic researches fouse on the influence of the entrepreneurs’ personal factors as well as the influence of social capital and technology innovation．In future studies，researchers need to give more weights to the determinants with Chinese characteristics and the corresponding situational factors，in order to lay the foundation for building the management theory under Chinese context．