Organizational Culture as the Glue between People and Organization: A Competence-based View on Learning and Competence Building

Jörg Freiling and Hanno Fichtner

Zeitschrift fuer Personalforschung. German Journal of Research in Human Resource Management, 2010, vol. 24, issue 2, 152-172

Abstract: Is organizational culture a catalyst of competence development? This paper argues it is. The reason for this is that organizational culture fosters the process of learning and competence building and works as a glue between people and the organization they belong to. We employ a most recently developed approach belonging to market process theory, the so-called ‘competence-based theory of the firm’, to explain these causal relationships.

Keywords: organizational culture; competence building; learning; Competence-based Theory of the Firm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 L20 L22 L23 M12 M53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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