Organisational Culture: Development and Early Application

Elizabeth Kummerow and Neil Kirby
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Elizabeth Kummerow: The University of Adelaide, Australia
Neil Kirby: The University of Adelaide, Australia

Chapter 1 in Organisational Culture:Concept, Context, and Measurement(In Two Volumes), 2013, pp 3-44 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractThe following sections are included:A Brief Introduction to Organisational CultureOrganisational Culture DefinedOrigins of the Contemporary Study of Organisational CultureDevelopment of the Organisational Culture Perspective within Organisation TheoryClassical organisation theoryThe classical philosophersThe neoclassical schoolThe human relations schoolDifferences between the human relations and organisational culture perspectivesContribution of competing perspectives‘Modern’ structural theorySystems and contingency theoriesPower and politics perspectiveOrganisational culture and organisational theoriesPopularisation of the Organisational Culture ConceptIn Search of ExcellenceMajor Claims about Organisational CultureConclusions

Keywords: Organisational Culture; Origins; Historical Development; Popularisation; Measurement; Context; Attributions; Climate; Social Representations; Change; Field Research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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