Does culture make business organizations, or do business organizations make their own cultures? The question underlies all debates about the impact of national culture on corporate culture. Moreover, Inquiries into this impact have ranged in response from determining effect to shaping effect. Whether determining or shaping, analysis of the effect presupposes that the corporation is the predomin...

In difficult financial times, companies face various moral issues to try to keep up with their competitors. Although these issues have a direct impact on employee decision making, businesses rarely address how employees should assess the ethics of their actions and incorporate ethics into their decisions. Often this can be alleviated by creating and maintaining a corporate culture with a focus ...

Abstract We investigate which form of corporate culture is most effective in enhancing individual performance creative tasks conducted group settings. combine a series experiments with questionnaire on values to test whether ranking and incentives succeed instantiating culture. Being ranked against competitors setting at the level serves as social cue that appears induce members significantly s...

This study documents corporate culture at the time of initial public offering (IPO) and relationship between IPO firm financial performance. Based on a sample 1157 US firms that went 1996 2011 performance information through 2016, data provide strong evidence regional culture, industry characteristics, pre-IPO financing play key roles in explaining firm's cultural orientation. Moreover, indicat...

There have been some new developments in research into corporate culture. Two Americans, a mathematician and a sociologist, have developed a mathematical model that makes it easier to understand the complexity and dynamic of cultural transmission. They have used simulations to examine how a company's socialization processes and its demographic flow, i.e. employee turnover and recruitment, may a...