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Culture has been shown to impact on International Business, especially on the aspect of group performance (Gibson, 1999). This paper mainly analyzes the impact of culture on International Business. And in order to analysis it well, firstly we will talk about the definition, levels and Hofstede’s theory of culture in the section 2.Organizational Culture and Organisational Performance: Empirical Evidence from the Banking Industry in Ghana Mariama Zakari, Kofi Poku. 1990) and the different understandings of what culture is (Brown (1995). The culture of an organisation can be defined as the embodiment of its collective systems, beliefs, norms, ideologies, myths and.Abstract. Argues that organizations should be thought of as cultures rather than machines, and that managing is as much a social as a technical process. Suggests that effective leadership, and the successful design of appropriate organization development programmes, are dependent on executive understanding and sensitivity to organizational.
Andrew Brown (1995, 1998) stated the definition of organizational culture in his book Organizational Culture is as follows: “Organizational culture refers to the pattern of beliefs, values and learned ways of coping with experience that have.The reader is given an introduction to the origins of the current interest in organisational culture, with examples drawn from real-life organisations. Building on these fundamental concepts, key issues in the study of culture, such as problems of definition, the development of cultures, sub-cultures and national cultures, are examined in detail.
First, organizational culture is a powerful tool for improving business performance (Brown, 1995), it can also be a competitive advantage against the organization’s competitors, for example, some companies like Hewlett-Packard and IBM, the organizational culture within the two companies has become a competitive advantage over their competitors.
