The whole movement, read and linked.

Harvard Business Review · Gary Hamel & Michele Zanini

HBR Nov–Dec 2018 article on Haier's 4,000 micro-enterprises, user-facing 'MEs' and 'nodes' — full-text PDF mirror.

Insight Books · Summary

Structured summary of Hamel & Zanini's book with the four flagship cases.

Articles of Interest (blog) · Blog

Readable digest of the HBR Haier article with key quotes and figures.

MIT Sloan Management Review · MIT SMR

How Haier's self-managing micro-enterprises restarted production faster than rivals in early 2020.

Human Resource Management Review (ScienceDirect) · HRMR authors

How SMOs (Buurtzorg, Morning Star, Valve, Haier, Alqvimia, Boldare) run HR functions without HR departments.

Columbia Business School Insights · CBS faculty

Five forces that keep bureaucracy alive and actions drawn from Haier, Buurtzorg, ING and Spotify.

INSEAD · INSEAD News

Zhang Ruimin explains three ways businesses can disrupt with Rendanheyi to 400 MBAs at Fontainebleau.

Caixin Global · Denise Jia

Profile of the founder and the rendanheyi model as he steps down; annual forum with Hamel's Management Lab.

China Daily (Qingdao) · China Daily

Notes the first Rendanheyi International Management Innovation Certification signed with EFMD.

Peter Fisk · Peter Fisk

Long-form profile from the Qingdao forum: 28% annual growth for a decade under Rendanheyi.

Wikipedia · —

Reference biography.

Corporate Rebels · Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.

Overview of ten alternative structures (mini-factories, micro-enterprises, cells, squads) with the companies that invented them.

Corporate Rebels · Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.

Introduction to Haier's 4,000 self-managing micro-enterprises and the internal market that connects them.

Corporate Rebels · Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.

Thought piece on splitting a corporation into hundreds of internal start-ups.

Corporate Rebels · Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.

How Haier uses internal platforms and contract logic to coordinate micro-enterprises.

Corporate Rebels · Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.

How Haier's model was transplanted into its German subsidiary.

Corporate Rebels · Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.

Explains Haier's move from micro-enterprises to 'ecosystem micro-communities'.

Corporate Rebels · Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.

How Haier incubates thousands of internal start-ups.

Corporate Rebels · Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.

How open data underpins Haier's internal market.

Corporate Rebels · Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.

Overview of large organisations (80,000 at Haier, 15,000 at Buurtzorg) proving self-management scales.

Leadermorphosis (podcast) · Lisa Gill

Academic and platform-design perspectives on Haier's thousands of micro-enterprises.

Leadermorphosis (podcast) · Lisa Gill

Original Morning Star team member on misconceptions and the two principles of self-management.

MIT Sloan Management Review · MIT SMR

How Zhang 'blew up' Haier's administrative structure and re-emerged as a platform for employee-run micro-enterprises.

IE Insights (IE University) · Zhang Ruimin

Spanish business school video: Zhang explains turning the enterprise into a self-organisation.

Chief Executive · Chief Executive

How RenDanHeYi transformed GE Appliances after Haier's acquisition.

Gary Fox (blog) · Gary Fox

Explainer of Ren-Dan-HeYi and Zhang's 'law of entropy' critique of traditional management.

Springer (Zohar, Quantum Management) · Danah Zohar

Chapter arguing the model — self-organising micro-units on platforms — is a template beyond Haier.

California Management Review (SAGE) · Frynas, Mol & Mellahi

CMR 61(1): how Haier built the Rendanheyi platform of practices; an extended process model of management innovation.

California Management Review · CMR

Issue page listing the Haier article alongside strategic-agility pieces.

California Management Review (via SKKU) · Frynas, Mol & Mellahi

Open copy incl. Zhang's 'we may be entering the era of losing control'.

California Management Review (HBR Store) · Frynas, Mol & Mellahi

Purchasable reprint.

INSEAD Publishing · Lee, Koo & Minnaar

Case on the evolution of Haier's decentralised model toward a platform ecosystem.

Strategic Management Journal · Lee et al.

Theory of when organisations can scale without expanding the authority hierarchy.

NBC News / Entrepreneur · Entrepreneur.com

IMD's Fischer on Haier's independent units whose leaders are chosen by and accountable to peers.

CNBC · CNBC

Frames Bayer inside the 'Great Flattening' trend; 12,000 job cuts, headcount ~90,000.

Knowledge at Wharton · Wharton

Zhang, in New York, on turning every department into a micro-enterprise and eliminating 10,000 middle managers who created no value for users.

Il Sole 24 Ore (English edition) · Il Sole 24 Ore

Retells the 1984 origin story — Zhang having workers smash 76 defective fridges — as the birth of RenDanHeYi's user-connection philosophy.

INSEAD Knowledge · INSEAD

Zhang on Rendanheyi's goal of 'changing a whole garden into a rain forest' and Haier's $40bn revenue under the model.

IMD · IMD faculty

An IMD consultant who has worked with Haier for years on how the RenDanHeYi platform keeps attracting and exploiting new ideas.

Substack (Doug Kirkpatrick) · Doug Kirkpatrick

Excerpt from Kirkpatrick's book on a 2012 Qingdao visit; explains ZZJYT (independent operating units) and Zhang's debt to Peter Drucker.