Corporate Culture and Economic Performance: A French Study
通过实地研究法国五家成熟行业企业，提出文化价值观、管理实践与经济绩效关系的假设，发现文化强度与同质性与企业增长相关，但与盈利能力的关联较弱。
This paper is based on an exploratory field study of the relations between corpor ate culture and economic performance. The method of assessing a company's culture is presented, then hypotheses on relations between values, management practices and economic performance are proposed and discussed. The study was limited to five French single business companies operating in mature industries with a differentiation strategy. Cultural intensity and homogen eity and some cultural attributes appeared to be related to the firms' growth. On the other hand, the relations between profitability and the company's cultural attributes were less significant. Some hypotheses are generated for further validation.