Methodological Approaches in the Research of Organizational Culture

Nebojša Janićijević

Economic Annals, 2011, vol. 56, issue 189, 69 – 100

Abstract: In the thirty-years-long research of organizational culture, two mutually opposed methodological approaches have emerged: objectivistic-quantitative and subjectivistic-qualitative. These two approaches are based on opposite ontological and epistemological assumptions: they include different types of research, and use opposite, quantitative vs. qualitative, methods of research. Each of the methodological approaches has its advantages and disadvantages. For this reason a hybrid approach emerges as a legitimate choice in organizational culture research methodology. It combines elements of both subjectivistic and objectivistic methodological approaches, according to the goals, content, and context of the research and preferences of the researcher himself/herself. Since it is possible to combine the two principal methodological approaches in various ways, there are several possible hybrid methodologies in organizational culture research. After the review of objectivistic-quantitative and subjectivistic-ualitative methodological approaches, one of possible hybrid approaches in the research of organizational culture is presented in this paper.

Keywords: organizational culture; research methodology; organization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B49 M14 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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