The challenges organisations face today are not only offering new products or technologies but also altering the nature of management within organisations. The purpose of this research was to explore issues related to management innovation, their drivers and answer a call for more research on drivers of management innovation. This study makes significant contributions and extends the management innovation literature by providing the link between external and internal drivers of management innovation. The findings from this research provide new insights into innovation development activities by promoting business growth and preventing high failure rates of innovation adoptions.