what is the difference between corporate culture and organizational culture?
Dear Mohamed, see the link below:
http://www.ehow.com/info_8371893_there-between-organizational-corporate-culture.html
Hello,
See the link below.
http://amr.aom.org/content/21/3/619.short
Raed
http://amr.aom.org/content/21/3/619.short
Dear Benribiha,
The answer provided in http://www.ehow.com/info_8371893_there-between-organizational-corporate-culture.html is incomplete. Of course, corporations are built for profits and organizations may not. However, corporations in strategic term are multi-business firms, usually built by several interconnected organizations (headquarters and subsidiaries of different functions (mandates), forms and locations). Some subsidiaries can be purchase previously from other corporations and thus inherit some elements of the past owner's corporate culture. Thereby, corporate culture embraces broader set of actors and thus is narrower as it strives to depict some common elements in all organizations constituting a corporation or just a dominant culture. You can talk about the culture of McDonald, but what indeed is common for a McDonald's organization in the USA and a McDonald's franchisee in Kenya? Organizational culture is richer in content as it tries to depict key elements of a specific organization (like D.Dennison suggested)..
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Igor Gurkov
"I’ve had this discussion with a lot of folks over the years and I’ve created the following distinction. Whenever you get two or more people together in any organization, those people will create methods of communicating and interacting among each other that help organize time and effort. These methods could include the way desks and workstations are positioned, where people go to lunch, after work activities, dress codes and annual parties. These things make up “Company” culture. When you hear people say “At our company, we work hard and play hard,” or “It’s a family atmosphere,” that’s a company culture they're talking about. All organizations have a “company” culture. When people get together, they create one. It just kind of happens. Now “Corporate” culture is very different. A “corporate” culture is a combination of systems and processes that are put in place specifically to drive competitive advantage in the marketplace. Encompassing such things as work flow processes, infrastructure, training, communication and commitment to a well articulate mission statement (there are lots of others), a corporate culture is deliberate, difficult to build, hard to imitate and results in consistent returns to the organization in product quality, service delivery, cost controls or a combination of those. Corporate culture can’t easily be imitated. Very few organizations have a corporate culture. It’s hard to build, and even harder to maintain, despite the benefits" (Levy, 2007).
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-difference-between-corporate-culture-and-organizational-culture.htm
http://businesscasestudies.co.uk/business-theory/strategy/corporate-and-organisational-culture.html
http://thethingis.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/01/whats_the_diffe.html
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