Strategic Management: Culture (Definitions)

"(a) A perception of the critical success factors shared by a unit of the firm. (b) Norms and values applied to selection of strategic projects." (H Igor Ansoff et al, "Implanting Strategic Management" 3rd Ed., 1990)

"(1) The shared methods in which people of an organization think and behave. (2) The 'personality' of an organization." (Margaret Y Chu, "Blissful Data ", 2004)

"In the Framework for Information Quality, a company’s attitudes, values, customs, practices, and social behavior, including both official policies and unofficial 'ways of doing things', 'how things get done', and 'how decisions get made'." (Danette McGilvray, "Executing Data Quality Projects", 2008)

"The collective set of attitudes, activities, and behaviors that, collectively, tend to give an organization its personality." (Steven Haines, "The Product Manager's Desk Reference", 2008)

[adaptive culture:] "Adaptive cultures engage in at least five practices. They (1) name the elephants in the room, (2) share responsibility for the organization’s future, (3) exercise independent judgment, (4) develop leadership capacity, and (5) institutionalize reflection and continuous learning." (Alexander Grashow et al, "The Practice of Adaptive Leadership", 2009)

[participatory culture:] "An environment in which information is made available to support individuals in making appropriate decisions, and where decisions are shifted to the most appropriate location in the organization so that those affected by a decision participate in, or are represented in, the process of making it." (Sally A Miller et al, "People CMM: A Framework for Human Capital Management" 2nd Ed., 2009)

"This is the name given to the collection of basic assumptions, values, norms and artefacts that are shared by and influence the behaviour of an organisation’s members." (Bernard Burnes, "Managing change : a strategic approach to organisational dynamics" 5th Ed., 2009)

"Includes the customary beliefs, forms of expression, and material traits of a particular racial group situated within certain geographical location and within certain time." (Irina Kondratova & Ilia Goldfarb, "Culturally Appropriate Web User Interface Design Study: Research Methodology and Results", 2011)

[corporate culture:] "A collection of beliefs, expectations, and values learned and shared by a corporation’s members and transmitted from one generation of employees to another." (Thomas L Wheelen & J David Hunger., "Strategic management and business policy: toward global sustainability" 13th Ed., 2012)

"A shared system of values, beliefs, and behaviors that characterize a group of organization." (Joan C Dessinger, "Fundamentals of Performance Improvement" 3rd Ed., 2012)

"Distinctive heritage shared by a group of people. It passes on beliefs, norms, and customs." (Barry Berman & Joel R Evans, "Retail Management: A Strategic Approach" 12th Ed., 2013)

"The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterize a company or an organization." (Jim Davis & Aiman Zeid, "Business Transformation: A Roadmap for Maximizing Organizational Insights", 2014)

"The beliefs, customs, practices, and social behavior of a particular nation or people; a group of people whose shared beliefs and practices identify a particular place, class, or time to which they belong; a particular set of attitudes that characterizes a group of people." (Ken Sylvester, "Negotiating in the Leadership Zone", 2015)

"defined as a set of shared attitudes, values, goals and practices that characterize an institution, organization or group." (Thomas C Wilson, "Value and Capital Management", 2015)

"An organization’s values, traditions, behavioral norms, symbols, and social characteristics." (Robert M Grant, "Contemporary Strategy Analysis" 10th Ed., 2018)

"Is the set of assumptions, beliefs, values, and norms shared by an organization's members." (Justína Mikulášková et al, "Spiral Management: New Concept of the Social Systems Management", 2020)

"A set of shared values and beliefs that drive behavior." (Forrester)

"set of values shared by a group of people, including expectation about how people should behave, their ideas, beliefs and practices" (ITIL)