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Organizational Culture in Cooperatives: an exploratory approach

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dc.contributor.authorRodrigues, Ana
dc.contributor.authorFerreira, Marisa R.
dc.contributor.authorMarques, Cristina Paula
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-11T14:32:29Z
dc.date.available2016-01-11T14:32:29Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractIn recent years, organizational culture has become one of the common themes of interest of scientific and academic research. Each organization has its own unique cultural identity. Based on the recognition that organizational culture is considered important to an organization’s results, and social economy organizations are concerned with improving managerial practices and results, our objective is to study organizational culture in cooperatives: identifying their organizational culture as a specific type of organization of the social economy, recognized as increasingly important economic agents; and in doing so, explore the usage of a widely known model, the Competing Values Framework (Quinn & Rohrbaugh 1983). Three cooperatives were studied. Their presidents were interviewed, and a questionnaire was applied to cooperative members to obtain demographic and organizational culture data. Differences between the cooperatives’ cultural profiles seem to be consistent with both the circumstances of Portuguese social economy organizations (SEOs), and to the organizations’ uniqueness regarding their trade, focuses, and history. International firm trends were compared with this study’s results, and also appear to be explained by the SEO’s management practices evolution standpoint: lack of structured way of working, and the need to improvise and innovate in order to get things done. The importance of our research is held in the fact that social economy, and the cooperative movement in particular, has a developing importance in the expansion of many economies, the lack of literature on culture in SEOs, and the exploratory usage of a well-known model of management literature in cooperatives.pt_PT
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9860419-5-2
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/7364
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.subjectCooperativespt_PT
dc.subjectSocial Economypt_PT
dc.subjectOrganizational Culturept_PT
dc.subjectCompeting Values Frameworkpt_PT
dc.titleOrganizational Culture in Cooperatives: an exploratory approachpt_PT
dc.typeconference object
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oaire.citation.conferencePlaceMadrid - Espanhapt_PT
oaire.citation.title26th International Business Information Management Association (IBIMA) Conferencept_PT
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typeconferenceObjectpt_PT

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