The Study of Organizational Culture: are the difficulties in the object or in the form of defining it?

In this article, the author discusses the theorethical and methodological difficulties that surrounds the study of organizational culture. It is argued that a more substantial progress has not been made in this field due to an inadequate separation of the objets and methods of study of anthropology...

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Autor: Migueles, Carmen Pires
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2003
País:Brasil
Institución:Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)
Repositorio:Cadernos EBAPE.BR
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.fgv.br:article/4868
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.fgv.br/cadernosebape/article/view/4868
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:organizational culture
ethnography
semiotics
cultura organizacional
etnografia
semiótica
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Sumario:In this article, the author discusses the theorethical and methodological difficulties that surrounds the study of organizational culture. It is argued that a more substantial progress has not been made in this field due to an inadequate separation of the objets and methods of study of anthropology and sociology, on one side, and psychology, on the other. This confusion of spheres has been causing a persistent difficulty on the definition of the object of analysis and consequently on the production of valid research results.