Open AccessThe mutual impact of organizational culture and structure
Author(s) -
Nebojša Janićijević
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
economic annals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.148
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1820-7375
pISSN - 0013-3264
DOI - 10.2298/eka1398035j
Subject(s) - organizational culture , organizational structure , organizational commitment , organizational studies , organization development , organizational performance , organizational behavior and human resources , organizational learning , organizational engineering , organizational safety , organizational effectiveness , business , knowledge management , public relations , political science , management , economics , computer science , marketing
This paper explores the relationship between the structure and culture of an organization. The starting assumption is that organizational structure and organizational culture impact each other, and that there is a causal relationship due to which the agreement of the two components of organization leads to better performance. First, the mechanism through which organizational culture impacts the design of organizational structures and the manner in which organizational structure affects the maintenance, strengthening, or changing of organizational culture is explained at the conceptual level. Then, based on the known classifications of organizational structure and culture, they are put into a relationship of direct mutual interdependence. This is done by generating hypotheses about the agreement of particular types of organizational culture and particular types of organizational structure
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