A General Behavior Model and New Definitions of Organizational Cultures

Jay Y. Wu

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2008, vol. 37, issue 6, 2535-2545

Abstract: Current definitions of organization/corporate cultures overemphasize long-run equilibrium and underplay short-run dynamics; they stress commonalities and overlook diversities, underscore emic analyses and lose sights of etic analyses, and separate the intangible from the tangible; plus are "model unfriendly." As an alternative approach addressing these problems, we propose a new General Behavioral Model (GBM) and then derive two new definitions of OC that view organizational cultures as [1] accumulated choices and [2] interactions among critical masses of people. Theoretical characteristics and managerial implications are discussed.

Keywords: Organizational/corporate; cultures; Accumulated; choices; General; Behavioral; Model; Critical; masses; of; people (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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