Organization and Management Theory OMT

Scientific Studies on Organizational Culture and Business Performance

  • 1.  Scientific Studies on Organizational Culture and Business Performance

    Posted 04-30-2007 11:53
    A former (IT) student suspects some corporate focus on organization culture
    (a consulting engagement, reading, courses, thinking...) may be useful. But
    not all the decision makers are convinced. To help make his case, he would
    like to know,

    What studies examine links between organizational culture
    and business performance? And what are the findings?

    His firm, by the way, is going through a merger, but he says that is not the
    primary issue. I've adapted a class lecture for his purposes into a slide
    deck on "Why study organizational culture?", but would welcome any
    suggestions for studies to include on the list. Especially more recent
    studies.

    Email me directly at sf@alum.mit.edu about any individual articles or list
    of articles. In your note, let me know if you would like me to send you my
    draft slide deck.

    Thanks, Steve

    I plan to put together a brief annotated bibliography of the relevant work,
    and will post a summary to my website. I'll send a note to the list when I
    do that in a week or two.

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    Steven F. Freeman * Center for Organizational Dynamics * University of
    Pennsylvania * (215) 898-6967 * Fax: (215) 898-8934 * sff@sas.upenn.edu *
    www.organizationaldynamics.upenn.edu/center * www.appliedresearch.us/sf/
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