Organizational Culture
Origins and Weaknesses
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5822271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | V Lynn Meek (University of New England, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 453-473 |
| Publication date | 1988-10-01 |
| 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 | 10.1177/017084068800900401 |
| OpenAlex | W2102353755 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 52 |
| References cited | 41 |
This paper is a brief but critical survey of some theories of organizational culture. It outlines the theories of culture borrowed from anthropology by social scientists interested in 'complex organizations', and locates these theories in an historical debate regarding their 'proper' use. The paper argues the need for a conceptual distinction between culture and social structure, and asserts that the culture of organizational life cannot be analyzed in terms of a universal unitary concept. The argument concludes by suggesting 'conceptual tools' for interpreting culture - symbol, ideational systems, myth and ritual - and how they might be used in analysis
Argument (complex analysis · Economics · Epistemology · Management · Mythology · Organizational culture · Organizational studies · Organizational theory · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Unitary state · Global and Cross-Cultural Management · Law · Philosophy
Der Einfluss organisationaler Gestaltungsparameter auf die Kundennähe von Unternehmen
The Realities and Futures of Work
Toward a Theory of Organizational Culture and Effectiveness
The Antecedents of Deinstitutionalization
In Pursuit of Inter-Agency Collaboration In The Public Sector
Context matters in implementation science
Culture, Organizations and
Culture, Organizations and
The Effects of Cultural Components in Public and Private Sector Organizations
Inequality rules
Development and validation of the organizational nostalgia scale and its relationship with affective commitment and organizational discontinuity
Managing diversity in academic organizations
Organizational Culture, Quality of Work Life, and Organizational Effectiveness in Korean University Hospitals
Contemporary Issues in Social Sciences
The Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis Applied to Big 5(4) Public Accounting Firms' Assessments of Client Internal Controls
The Effect of Administrator Replacement Circulation in Informal Education Institutions Providing Adult Education on Organizational Culture
European influences on Australian organisational culture
The psychosocial response to a terrorist attack at Manchester Arena, 2017
Emergent cultural change
Bureaucratic configuration and discretion in asylum case processing
Learning to trust in social enterprises
Taking on the Institution
Scapegoating culture
Cambio en el Liderazgo Educativo Intermedio en Nueva Zelanda
Building a Climate for Innovation Through Transformational Leadership and Organizational Culture
History, Culture and Organization Studies
Family Man or Conqueror? - Contested Meanings in an Engineering Company
Polishing Up the Steel Frame
Equality Management — Towards a Materialist Approach
A Critical Linguistic Approach to a Corpus of Business Letters in Greek
General Management in the NHS
Between Organizations and Institutions. Legitimacy and Medical Managers
The Introduction of Performance Related Pay in the British Civil Service (1982-88)
Waiting for Dead Men’s Shoes’
Values and Organizational Structure
The appropriation of new organizational forms within networks of practice
Turning Facts into Stories and Stories into Facts
Théorie du noyau central et transformation des cultures organisationnelles à l'occasion d'une fusion
Organizational change, leadership and learning
The Place of Culture in Organization Theory
La participación de los trabajadores en la calidad total
Work Opportunities and Organizational Commitment in International Organizations
In Search of Culture
Under new management
Looking Through the Window of Opportunity
Beyond blame
What a good idea! a conceptual history of the paradigm in organizational theory
Heritage Work
Strategy, Technology, and Social Processes With in Professional Cultures
Double Agents
NHS managers as rhetoricians
No Hiding Place
Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis
Gaining Control Of The Corporate Culture
The art of Japanese management
Complex organizations
The coming crisis of western sociology
A sociology of sociology.
Two-Dimensional Man
Sociology
A Structurationist Account of Political Culture
Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences
The Social System of the Modern Factory
The University of Papua New Guinea
Scientific Productivity in Organizational Settings
The Organizational Life Cycle
Theories of Organizational Culture
The Role-Set
Human Relations in Industry
Dialectic and Functionalism
Human Relations in an Expanding Company
Organizational Learning
Theories of Culture
Anthropology and Anthropologists
The Enterprise and Its Environment. A System Theory of Management Organization
The Coming Crisis in Western Sociology
Theories of Myth
Ritual and Social Change
The Theory of Organizations
| Unique citing works | 52 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,44 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2024 (35) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 51 |