Introduction The cultural view of organizations offers the idea that all organizations have within them the possibility and the capacity to change[1]. Just as the personalities of individuals change over the years as a result of interaction with their social surroundings, so do organizational cultures. Morgan[2] argues that a static view of an organization's culture implies that either the environment is static or that the organization is closed to environmental changes. Management researchers have recently …showed first 75 words of 4634 total…

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