Sonja A. Sackmann Book order (chronological)

Highlighting the critical role of organizational culture, this book emphasizes its influence on the success or failure of both for-profit and non-profit entities. It argues that understanding and shaping culture is essential for managers and leaders to achieve optimal results. By examining the interplay between culture and strategy, the text provides insights into how leaders can cultivate a positive organizational environment that drives performance and effectiveness.

The multiple-cultures perspective advocated in this book suggests that culture in organizational settings is more complex, pluralistic, diverse and contradictory than previously acknowledged. Contributors address culture at various levels including national, industrial and organizational. Issues covered implicit managerial understandings and overt practices; the growth and decline of organizations with a focus on culture, managerial control strategies and subculture formation; change and temporary reconciliation; factors that influence homogeneity and heterogeneity and that contribute to a strong corporate culture; and issues of gender, ethnicity and social and organizational identity as concepts that may foster a better understand