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Corporate Culture and Performance: Ways of Assessing Corporate Culture, Links to Performance and Recommendations

Date of Publishing: 2006


The empirical assessment of culture is still one of the major challenges in organizaitonal culture research. In this book 25 tools for the measurement of organizational culture are described and critically evaluated. The analysis is complemented by recommendations for future culture research. Each tool is analyzed along the following dimensions:

  • Purpose
  • Background of the instrument
  • Definition / Concept of Culture
  • Dimensions of Culture
  • Data collection and analysis
  • Relation to organizational effectiveness / corporate performance
  • Use and adoption of the instrument
  • Reference to interventions
  • Evaluation