Innovation Organizational Culture

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Organizational/Corporate culture and innovation

Organizational culture typically is defined as a complex set of values, beliefs, assumptions and symbols that define the way in which a firm conducts its business (Barney, 1986). It is the underlying values, beliefs, and principles that serve as a foundation for an organization’s management system as well as the set of management practices and behaviors that exemplify and reinforce those basic principles (Denison, 1990: 2). The core of the organizational culture is shared values, with cultural strength describing the extent to which values are shared by organization members (Saffold, 1988). And organizational culture provides norms of expected behaviors that employees might follow (Schein, 1992). …show more content…

Based on present literatures, we can comb the relationship between organizational culture and innovation three types, organizational learning culture and innovation, organization’s ethical culture and innovation, organizational innovation culture and …show more content…

It is a basis for gaining a sustainable competitive advantage and a key variable in the enhancement of organizational performance (Brockmand & Morgan, 2003). Organization learning culture can be defined as a set of norms and values about the functioning of an organization (Schein, 1985) that support systematic, in-depth approaches aimed at achieving higher-level organizational learning (Cerne and Jaklic, Skerlavaj, Aydinlik, A. Ü., & Polat, 2012). Based on Škerlavaj, Štemberger, Škrinjar, and Dimovski (2007) understanding of organizational learning culture that relates the process of organizational learning (Huber, 1991) to the competing values framework of organizational culture (Denison & Spreitzer, 1991; McDermott & Stock, 1999; Prajogo & McDermott, 2005). Cerne et al. (2012) defined organizational learning culture as a set consisted of three elements: information acquisition, information interpretation and behavioral and cognitive changes. Learning plays a key role in enabling companies to achieve speed and flexibility within the innovation process (de Weerd-Nederhof, Pacitti, Jorge, & Pearson, 2002). Moreover, organizational learning culture has a statistically significant impact on organizational innovations (Darvish & Nazari, 2013; Bates & Khasawneh, 2005; Darvish & Nazari, 2013). Nonaka

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