The Relationship between Organizational Culture

This exploratory study analyzes the relationship between organizational culture and the deployment of systems development methodologies. Organizational culture is interpreted in terms of the competing values model and deployment as perceptions of the support, use, and impact of systems development methodologies. The results show that the deployment of methodologies by IS developers is primarily associated Ritu Agarwal was the accepting senior editor for this paper. Gert-Jan de Vreede was the associate editor. Roberto Evaristo and Nancy Russo served as reviewers. The third reviewer chose to remain anonymous. with a hierarchical culture that is oriented toward security, order, and routinization. IT managers’ critical attitudes of the deployment of methodologies in organizations with a strong rational culture (focusing on productivity, efficiency, and goal achievement) is also worth noting. Based on its empirical findings, the paper proposes a theoretical model to explain the impact of organizational culture on the deployment of systems development methodologies.