Abstract This paper adopts exploratory study on eight cases of typical management innovations to specify four knowledge component of management innovation and relevant acquisition mechanism. The results indicate that: conceptual knowledge, a sort of explicit knowledge, is mainly transferred inwardly through external strong links of an organization; technological or knowhow knowledge and contextual knowledge, belonging to tacit knowledge, are acquired by external strong links and internal strong links respectively; creative knowledge, the key for success of management innovation, is of tacit knowledge formulated through internal innovationteam dominated strong links.
2014, Vol. 11 
