Organizational culture – a popular but also a very complex concept – has been identified as an influential factor affecting the successes and failures of organizational change efforts. Many empirical organizational culture studies have been carried out in information systems (IS) research. However, culture is a very versatile concept, and there are many controversies in both defining and applyi...

BACKGROUND This study advances a measurement approach for the study of organizational culture in population-based occupational health research, and tests how different organizational culture types are associated with psychological distress, depression, emotional exhaustion, and well-being. METHODS Data were collected over a sample of 1,164 employees nested in 30 workplaces. Employees complete...

information disclosure and quality of their presentation are affected by a lot of environmental and organizational factors that organizational culture is one of the most important. responsible organization culture creates a dynamic information environment and helps the quality of information disclosure. accordingly, the aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of organizational culture on t...

PROBLEM Using theories from several disciplines, the concept of organizational culture remains controversial. Conflicting definitions, lack of semantic clarity, and debate over the most appropriate methods for assessing organizational culture have led to disagreement over the value and validity of such inquiry. METHODS This paper reviews development of the concept of organizational culture an...

Evidence-based practice (EBP) seeks to integrate the expertise of individual practitioners with the best available evidence within the context of the values and expectations of clients. Prior to implementing EBP, it is important to understand the significance that organizational change and organizational culture play. This article seeks to explore the literature associated with both organizatio...

Internationalization of business may perhaps force not merely the restructuring of cultural values but to consider the overture of different cultural practices which perhaps leads to a superior organizational performance. Literatures pertaining to organizational culture constantly reinforce that culture is imperatives for organizational change efforts, deployment of human resources and to a lar...

This paper aims to scrutinize how the organizational culture impacts knowledge activities and learning in project-based industry. The extent to which organizational culture influences knowledge activities and ultimately the performance of the project-based organization is investigated in the study. Firstly, the concept of knowledge and organizational learning with organizational culture point o...

The prerequisite for successful KM is to understand the employees, and to transfer their mindset, cultivate the culture of knowledge sharing, and integrate knowledge sharing with the entire organizational process, in order to utilize the human potential in organizations based on the transformation of organizational culture. This study investigated the influence of KM, organizational culture and...