Organizational Culture as a Complex Systems

Abstract

Chapter Summary

This chapter focuses on the middle level of organizations. It is a critical synthesis level for culture. The authors explain how this level is influenced by the higher and lower levels of the organizational culture. The authors discuss how factors from the higher and lower levels may affect this level. It is at this level that culture has the greatest effect on an organization’s business capabilities, and therefore its operations and performance.

Citation

Kucharska, W. and Bedford, D. (2023), "Organizational Culture as a Complex Systems", The Cultures of Knowledge Organizations: Knowledge, Learning, Collaboration (KLC) (Working Methods for Knowledge Management), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 25-38. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83909-336-420231002