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Organizational Culture

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Organizational culture is an elusive concept. It has remarkable face validity – everyone seems to understand what culture is – but often that understanding is vague and/or incomplete, and there can be as many definitions of culture as there are people studying it. This entry defines organizational culture through a popular framework or tool for analysing culture. It is descriptive but also practical. It emphasizes something senior and seasoned leaders appreciate – how understanding the organizational cultures they actually maintain, not just the ones they wish for, is crucial to effective strategic management.

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    Charles Galunic

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  1. Stanford University , Stanford, California, USA

    Mie Augier

  2. Tusher Ctr Intellectual Capital, University of California Tusher Ctr Intellectual Capital, Berkeley, California, USA

    David J. Teece

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Galunic, C. (2016). Organizational Culture. In: Augier, M., Teece, D. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94848-2_501-1

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