Theories of Organizational Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5772308 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yvan Allaire (Université du Québec), Mihaela E Firsirotu (Université du Québec) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 193-226 |
| Publication date | 1984-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Organization Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0170-8406 • E-ISSN: 1741-3044 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/017084068400500301 |
| OpenAlex | W2170356750 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 66 |
| References cited | 57 |
The notion that organizations may have specific cultures is found sprinkled in a vast array of publications on strategy and business policy, on organizational behaviour and theory. Although the absence of a solid theoretical grounding for the concept of organizational culture has been frequently lamented, little effort has been exerted to bring within the perimeter of the management and organizational field the relevant concepts found in cultural anthropology. The purpose of this paper is therefore three-fold: First, to provide a typology of schools of thought in cultural anthropology in order to understand the diverse and complex theories of culture advanced in this field; Second, to relate these different points of view to the emerging notions of organiza tional culture found explicitly or implicitly in the management and organization literature; Third, to pull together the insights and findings derived from this enquiry in order to propose an integrative concept of organizational culture as a useful metaphor for studying the processes of decay, adaptation and radical change in complex organizations
Organizational field · Organizational theory · Global and Cross-Cultural Management · Management and Organizational Studies · Organizational Learning and Leadership
A Multiple-Layer Model of Market-Oriented Organizational Culture
Cultural Factors as Co-Determinants of Participation in River Basin Management
Das Ende der Teilung von „Arbeit und Leben“? An der Schwelle zu einem neuen gesellschaftlichen Verhältnis von Betriebs- und Lebensführung
Managing Across Boundaries in Health Care
Toward a Theory of Organizational Culture and Effectiveness
Coevolution of Firm Absorptive Capacity and Knowledge Environment
Kurt Lewin and the Planned Approach to Change
Big Data and Predictive Analytics and Manufacturing Performance
Exploring organizational culture and performance of christian churches
Disappearing into the Object
The Commons and the Moral Organization
The Effects of Cultural Components in Public and Private Sector Organizations
“A Sane Island in an Ocean of Madness”
The link between cultural value systems and strategic marketing
In sweet harmony or in bitter discord? How cultural values and stakeholder requirements shape and users read an urban computing technology
Organizational culture
Cultural issues in economics
Influence of organisational culture on the implementation of health sector reforms in low- and middle-income countries
The Effect of Administrator Replacement Circulation in Informal Education Institutions Providing Adult Education on Organizational Culture
The Cultural Analysis of Soft Systems Methodology and the Configuration Model of Organizational Culture
The importance of social learning and culture for sustainable water management
Managing Organizational Culture
Integrating focal vulnerability into trust research
The Impact of Bureaucratic Conflict on US Counternarcotics Efforts in Afghanistan
Surviving Post-merger ‘Culture Clash’
Cultural Diversity and Its Impact on Social Interactive Processes
Understanding the Importance of Organizational Resources to Explain Organizational Problems
Building Sustainability on Deep Values Through Mindfulness Nurturing
Leader‐signaled knowledge hiding
Human research ethics committees and ethical review
Culture, Technical Rationality, and Organizational Culture
Evaluative relationships
European influences on Australian organisational culture
Street-Level Bureaucrats and the Welfare State
Organizational Metapaiterns
Looking at Organizational Culture, Hermeneutically
From Postmodern Anthropology to Deconstructive Ethnography
Partnering Across Borders
Cognitive Style and the Theory and Practice of Individual and Collective Learning in Organizations
The Cultural Approach to the Formation of Organizational Climate
Organizational Transformation
The Eye of the Needle
Turning Facts into Stories and Stories into Facts
Örgüt Kültürü
Heroes and Lies
The Place of Culture in Organization Theory
Explaining Differences in Repatriation Experiences
Características da cultura organizacional sob a óptica da cultura nacional
Reply to comments
Regulatory reform in the era of new technological development
Dimensions of Organizational Culture and beyond
Investigating the existence of multiple cultures in three local government organisations
In Search of Culture
Organizational Socialization and Job Satisfaction of Faculty at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan
La cultura escolar
Administrative Culture
Under new management
Organizational Culture
Essential Guide to Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research
Does a University Have a Culture
An approach to identifying consensus in a subfield
Formation of a sustainable development ecosystem for Ghanaian universities
A Configuration Model of Organizational Culture
Cultura organizacional escolar
Investigating Grassroots Sports' Engagement for Refugees
On the Popularity of Organizational Culture
Environments and organizations
Corporate cultures
Organizations and environments
Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis
Cognitive sociology
Culture
Complex organizations
Understanding Organizations
Culture and Organizations
Organizational Climates
The Interpretation of Cultures
Studies in ethnomethodology
The social construction of reality
Structure and Process in Modern Societies
Managerial Thinking
The Visible Hand
A Scientific Theory of Culture and Other Essays
The phenomenology of the social world
Organizational climate
Culture and Management
Cultural Materialism
The Organizational Life Cycle
A theory of enestruence (event-structure theory)
Determinants of Administrative Control
Organizational Climate
On looking at an elephant
Organizational Learning
Theories of Culture
Anthropologie structurale
Anthropologie Structurale Deux
Theories of Myth
A Sociology of Organizations
The Culture-Free Context of Organization Structure
Institutionalized Organizations
The Population Ecology of Organizations
| Unique citing works | 66 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,74 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2025 (38) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 64 |