Organizational culture: Conceptual discussion

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the critical discussion of organizational culture as well as the conceptual paradigm that underpins it. This paper does not attempt to cover the entire body of literature; rather, it focuses on the papers that were studied during the summer school (2021) in Estonia. Following a review of a limited number of scholarly works, this article comes to the conclusion that organizational culture is a complicated concept whose definition is dependent on who is using the term and from whose viewpoints it is being defined. The discussion of this paper is significant in that it incorporates new viewpoints and brings them together to provide assistance to individuals who are interested in conceiving organizational culture as a whole.

Keywords: Organization, Organizational culture, Management

JEL Classification: Z13