Studying Culture as an Integral Aggregate Variable: Organizational Culture and Innovation in a Group of Nonprofit Organizations

Field Methods

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 265-284

  Jaskyte, Kristina ^a   Dressler, William W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

cultural consensus; cultural models; innovativeness; organizational culture; research methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 17044376097     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X03262281     Document Type: Article

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