Organizational Culture as a Knowledge Resource

摘要: Organizational culture has long been recognized as the underlying set of values systems that determines how firms perceive and react to their environments. While there is widespread agreement over relevance its impact on organizations, many believe exists a concept than can be neither measured nor controlled. This chapter considers an alternate view in characterizing important knowledge resource facilitates management firm’s intellectual (knowledge) assets. We first present brief overview organizational then examine four key activities. As part this analysis, series research hypotheses offered provide link between certain cultural sub-types effective practice each areas: creation, storage, transfer, application. A implication must increasingly competitive managed order become learning organization. process, senior executives able manage various sub-cultures found within organizations foster those consistent with objectives. The concludes by considering initiatives opportunity change corporate cultures.