The Management Transformation of Huawei
From humble beginnings to global leadership
from $40Huawei has become China’s most prominent multinational company and a leader in the ICT sector. The book examines the management transformation of Huawei from the firm’s inception in 1987 until 2019. What makes Huawei interesting is its rate of growth and the level of detail in which we can observe not only the creation of organizational routines but also the breaking of routines across most of the major functional areas — Management, Product Development, HR, Supply Chain, Finance, R&D, Intellectual Property, and International. This makes Huawei an ideal case to advance the theory of routines and dynamic capabilities to change routines. The insights will be particularly interesting for academics in the field of strategy, management, and business history.
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Table of Contents
by Xiaobo Wu, Johann Peter Murmann, Can Huang, Bin Guo
Preface — Xiaobo Wu
Chapter 1. The Management Transformation of Huawei: An Overview — Johann Peter Murmann
Commentary: Arie Y. Lewin (Duke University), Liisa Välikangas (Hanken School of Economics), Ying Zhang (Rotterdam School of Management)
Chapter 2. Executive Management Team and Organizational Change: A Routinized Transformation Perspective — Ziyi Zhao, Bin Guo, Xiaobo Wu
Commentary: Jean Chen (Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University)
Chapter 3. Transforming Product Development at Huawei: The IPD Initiative — Zihan Zhang, Johann Peter Murmann
Commentary: Jaeyong Song (Seoul National University)
Chapter 4. Huawei’s Transformation of Supply Chain Management — Ying Li, Can Huang, Yongyi Shou
Commentary: Yongjiang Shi (Cambridge University)
Chapter 5. Financial Management Transformation in Huawei — Can Huang, Xiao Chen
Commentary: Ram Mudambi (Temple University)
Chapter 6. The Transformation of Huawei’s HR System — Hongqi Xu, Johann Peter Murmann
Commentary: Catherine Xin (CEIBS)
Chapter 7. Huawei’s International Journey — Wen Li, Xiaoran Chang, Bin Guo
Commentary: Carl Fey (Aalto University & Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Chapter 8. R&D Transformation of Huawei — Lanhua Li, Bin Guo, Johann Peter Murmann, Dong Wu
Commentary: Frans Greidanus (Zhejiang University)
Chapter 9. Huawei’s Intellectual Property Management Transformation — Johann Peter Murmann, Can Huang, Haoyu Zhang
Chapter 10. The Management Transformation of Huawei: Concluding Thoughts from a Comparative Perspective — Johann Peter Murmann
Appendix A: Number of Employees and Sales, 1987–2018
Appendix B: List of Presentations at Ruihua Institute of Innovation Management, Zhejiang University
Appendix C: Interviews Conducted for the Book
Appendix D: The Huawei Basic Law (1998)