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外文出处: European Management Journal
,,–275,2001
附件2:外文原文
Source:European Management Journal Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 268–275, 2001
Corporate Culture
During the past decade it has e recognized that ‘corporate culture’ has a significant impact on anizational performance (Siehl and Martin, 1990; Kotter and Heskett, 1992).
Explicitly or implicitly, it has been presumed that corporate culture affects the overall financial performance of a firm.
In spite of this presumption, there has been very little empirical research dealing with the financial effects of corporate culture. In one notable exception, Kotter and Heskett (1992) conducted macro-level research on panies, pared samples of (a priori) ‘strong panies’ with ‘weak panies’(1992, p. 19) from 22 different industries.
However, neither they nor others have done much research on the effects of culture on financial performance of a single firm. In part, this might be due to the difficulties of gaining a suitable research site. Nevertheless, there is a gap in our understanding of this phenomenon. Accordingly, the purpose of this article is to report the results of a field study of the impact of corporate culture on the ‘bottom line,’ or financial performance, of a firm. It presents the results of a relatively singular opportunity to investigate the relationship between corporate culture and financial performance