Abstract
Corporate culture is a set of broad, tacitly understood rules which tell employees what to \ndo under a wide variety of unimaginable circumstances. We explain how culture can be \neconomical, and suggest when different types of cultures will flourish.
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Variety (cybernetics)Organizational cultureBusinessSet (abstract data type)Industrial organizationEconomicsManagementComputer scienceArtificial intelligence
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- 1988
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- article
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- S1
- Pages
- 115-126
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- 287
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Colin F. Camerer,
A.P.J. Vepsäläinen
(1988).
The economic efficiency of corporate culture.
Strategic Management Journal
, 9
(S1)
, 115-126.
https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.4250090712
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- 10.1002/smj.4250090712