Defining Corporate Culture
How Social Scientists Define Culture, Values and Tradeoffs among Them
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An effort to move beyond the rhetoric and firmly establish an understanding of corporate culture would greatly contribute to any attempts to describe, measure, or alter culture in a corporate setting. This paper is prepared as part of an ongoing project on “Corporate Cultures: Meaning and Measurement” under the LRN-RAND Center on Corporate Law, Ethics and Governance. While the project will eventually develop a framework through which it is possible to measure corporate culture, the first step was to develop a clear and concise definition of the frequently used and sometimes obscure concept of “culture” in various social science literatures. This literature review was conducted in an effort to clarify and improve understanding of this terminology.
Table of Contents
Chapter One
Introduction
Chapter Two
Methodology
Chapter Three
Early Cultural Theories in the Social Sciences
Chapter Four
Modern and Post-Modern Cultural Theories
Chapter Five
Organizational Studies and the Notion of Corporate Culture
Chapter Six
Conclusion
The research described in this report was conducted by the LRN-RAND Center for Corporate Ethics, Law, and Governance.
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