Can Biomimicry and Managerial Concepts Come Together?

Biomimicry, as a new way to create technology, provides new perspectives and innovations for companies' strategies. Biomimicry has been used in different fields such as architecture, product design, engineering and production processes since the 1990s. Although its long history, biomimicry and managerial concepts were handled together in just a few studies. The primary purpose of this paper is to handle biomimicry and managerial concepts together and to bring a managerial perspective to biomimicry. This study used a qualitative approach by exploring existing literature and relevant cases for biomimicry and selected managerial concepts. The study has put forward twelve propositions in order to correlate biomimicry and managerial concepts. We tried to correlate leadership and biomimicry in terms of harmonized individuals and teams and flexibility and courage ability of leaders. With regard to innovation, biomimicry is a powerful driver to accomplish and sustain innovation processes. On the other hand, biomimicry is a relevant concept of being an open system of companies and a significant tool of strategy formulation. Finally organization structure is linked with biomimicry in terms of being organic, lean and self-replicating. It has also significance to future research in sustainability issues. The study could be a starting point or a guideline for companies to survive by mimicking nature. This study is a step forward in understanding the link between biomimicry and managerial concepts.