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Organizational Culture: Mapping the Terrain.(Book Review)
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Administrative Science Quarterly
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March 1, 2003
- Author:
- Putnam, Linda L.
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Joanne Martin. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2002. 402 pp. $88.95, cloth; $39.95, paper.
Over a decade ago, Joanne Martin published a landmark book aimed at bringing some coherency to the sprawling terrain of organizational culture research. That book, Cultures in Organizations: Three Perspectives (1992), set forth an analytic framework that became the building block for future work in this area. Grounded in the belief that theories construct rather than reflect reality, Martin set forth three perspectives drawn from the research on organizational culture: (1) integration, characterized by homogeneity and a collective-wide consensus of deep-seated beliefs; (2) differentiation, ...