COMPARATIVE APPROACH UPON ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE MODELS
COMPARATIVE APPROACH UPON ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE MODELS

Summary/Abstract: Research on organizational culture (OC) evokes a common perception of unique characteristics that are stable over space and time but shared by the members of an organization. In this meta-study we stress out that papers on OC cover through a somewhat eclectic, and sometimes eccentric manner, a timeline of 70 years of both, OC theory and pseudoscientific approaches. Papers we eventually retained for this meta-analysis (47 out of 638 analyzed abstracts) fitted at least one criteria of the following: reference to (1) descriptions and definitions of OC and (2) types and dimensions of OC. Our contributions were generated through two studies run on our base sample: (1) A semantic text analysis of the OC definitions (solves ambiguities of words by means of several problem-solving algorithms) and (2) a frequency analysis of unique OC conceptualization attempts. Finally, we stress that organizations are being transformed because of the radical changes in the way people think, becoming more flexible and we identify key words and conceptual clusters, which could contribute to and streamline the managerial communication practices in every organization that operates with and facilitates administration services.

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