Economic Annals 2013 Volume 58, Issue 198, Pages: 35-60
https://doi.org/10.2298/EKA1398035J
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The mutual impact of organizational culture and structure
Janićijević Nebojša (Faculty of Economics, Belgrade)
This paper explores the relationship between the structure and culture of an
organization. The starting assumption is that organizational structure and
organizational culture impact each other, and that there is a causal
relationship due to which the agreement of the two components of organization
leads to better performance. First, the mechanism through which
organizational culture impacts the design of organizational structures and
the manner in which organizational structure affects the maintenance,
strengthening, or changing of organizational culture is explained at the
conceptual level. Then, based on the known classifications of organizational
structure and culture, they are put into a relationship of direct mutual
interdependence. This is done by generating hypotheses about the agreement of
particular types of organizational culture and particular types of
organizational structure.
Keywords: organization, organizational structure, organizational culture