Share:


Impact of ownership type and firm size on organizational culture and on the organizational culture-effectiveness linkage

    Kaisheng Zeng Affiliation
    ; Xiaohui Luo Affiliation

Abstract

This paper aims to extend the extant (primarily Western) organizational culture literature to emerging economies by explicitly incorporating two key contextual variables-ownership type and firm size into organizational culture model. Based on the theoretical model developed by Denison and his colleagues, we examined the impact of ownership type and firm size on organizational culture, as well as the moderating effect of the two contextual variables on the linkage between organizational culture and firm effectiveness. Using survey data from foreign-invested and state-owned firms in China, we find that ownership type and firm size have significant influence on organizational culture. We also find that different ownership type and firm size result in different organizational cultural effect on performance.

Keyword : organizational culture, ownership type, firm size, organizational culture-effectiveness linkage, emerging economy

How to Cite
Zeng, K., & Luo, X. (2013). Impact of ownership type and firm size on organizational culture and on the organizational culture-effectiveness linkage. Journal of Business Economics and Management, 14(1), S96-S111. https://doi.org/10.3846/16111699.2012.754373
Published in Issue
Dec 24, 2013
Abstract Views
876
PDF Downloads
1445
Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.