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Cultural Values in Strategy and Organization A volume in Research in Strategy Science T. K. Das, Series Editor RESEARCH IN STRATEGY SCIENCE T. K. Das, Series Editor Published Time Issues in Strategy and Organization (2019) Edited by T. K. Das Cultural Values in Strategy and Organization (2021) Edited by T. K. Das In Development Managerial Practice Issues in Strategy and Organization Cultural Values in Strategy and Organization edited by T. K. Das City University of New York INFORMATION AGE PUBLISHING, INC. Charlotte, NC • www.infoagepub.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP record for this book is available from the Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov ISBN: 978-1-64802-512-9 (Paperback) 978-1-64802-513-6 (Hardcover) 978-1-64802-514-3 (E-Book) Copyright © 2021 Information Age Publishing Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the publisher. Printed in the United States of America CONTENTS About the Book Series .........................................................................vii T. K. Das 1 Ecological Organizing: Implications of Evolving Cultural Values for Organization and Strategy ..................................................1 Peter J. Robertson and Joseph W. Harder 2 Have You Seen Corporate Cultural Responsibility? Prospects of a New Construct for Corporations Operating Across Communities ...........................................................................65 W. G. (Will) Zhao, Kyle Neabel, and Jingjing Du 3 Managing Cultural Integration in Mergers and Acquisitions .........83 José-Luis Rodríguez-Sánchez, Eva-María Mora-Valentín, and Marta Ortiz-de-Urbina-Criado 4 Culture, Paradoxical Frames, and Behavioral Strategy ..................109 Joshua Keller and Erica Wen Chen 5 Cultural Values in the Fair-Trade Market: Examining Producers’ Organizations .................................................................133 Mantiaba Coulibaly-Ballet, Zorana Jerinic, and Djamila Elidrissi 6 National Culture and Legitimacy in International Alliances ........151 Rajesh Kumar and T. K. Das v vi Contents 7 Are Family Businesses Values-Driven Organizations? An Exploratory Research ..................................................................171 Angela Dettori and Michela Floris 8 The Case of Executives’ Cultural Intelligence in Behavioral Strategy: An Introductory Essay and a Research Agenda ..............187 Arash Najmaei 9 Building an Alliance Culture: Lessons From Quintiles .................229 Dave Luvison, Ard-Pieter De Man, and Jack Pearson 10 Personal Values of Civil Engineers and Architects in the Strategic Decisions of Construction Companies ............................259 Atilla Damci, David Arditi, Gul Polat, and Harun Turkoglu 11 Cultural Characteristics of Chilean and Brazilian Workforces and Strategic Human Resource Management: An Integrative Literature Review ..............................................................................279 Francisca Álvarez-Figueroa About the Contributors .....................................................................327 Index ..................................................................................................335 ABOUT THE BOOK SERIES The field of strategy science has grown in both the diversity of issues it ad- dresses and the increasingly interdisciplinary approaches it adopts in un- derstanding the nature and significance of problems that are continuously emerging in the world of human endeavor. These newer kinds of challenges and opportunities arise in all forms of organizations, encompassing private and public enterprises, and with strategies that experiment with breaking the traditional molds and contours. The field of strategy science is also, per- haps inevitably, being impacted by the proliferation of hybrid organizations such as strategic alliances, the upsurge of approaches that go beyond the customary emphasis on competitiveness and profit making, and the inter- mixing of time-honored categories of activities such as business, industry, commerce, trade, government, the professions, and so on. The blurring of the boundaries between various areas and types of human activities points to a need for academic research to address the consequential developments in strategic issues. Hence, research and thinking about the nature of issues to be tackled by strategy science should also cultivate requisite variety in issues recognized for research inquiry, including the conceptual founda- tions of strategy and strategy making, and the examination of the critical roles of strategy makers, strategic thinking, time and temporalities, business and other goal choices, diversity in organizing modes for strategy imple- mentation, and the complexities of managing strategy, to name a few. This book series on Research in Strategy Science aims to provide an outlet for ideas and issues that publications in the field do not provide, either expressly or adequately, especially as regards the comprehensive coverage deserved by Cultural Values in Strategy and Organization, pages vii–viii Copyright © 2021 by Information Age Publishing All rights of reproduction in any form reserved. vii viii About the Book Series certain emerging areas of interest. The topics of the volumes in the series will keep in view this objective to expand the research areas and theoreti- cal approaches routinely found in strategy science, the better to permit expanded and expansive treatments of promising issues that may not suf- ficiently align with the usual research coverage of publications in the field. —T. K. Das City University of New York Series Editor Research in Strategy Science CHAPTER 1 ECOLOGICAL ORGANIZING Implications of Evolving Cultural Values for Organization and Strategy Peter J. Robertson Joseph W. Harder ABSTRACT The primary claim of this chapter is that organizations are evolving from a bureaucratic form grounded in the mechanistic thinking of the Industrial Era into a new organizational form we call “ecological organizing” that is informed by a new ecological paradigm emerging as society transitions into the Information Age. After introducing the framework of cultural values un- derlying our analysis, we begin by identifying four core values incorporated into the bureaucratic model and summarizing key criticisms of this organiza- tional form. Next we explain how organizations began changing in response to these criticisms, initially through the organization development movement and then more substantially as growing environmental turbulence demanded more organic organizations. We then introduce some of the foundational ideas of the new paradigm and indicate how they are influencing thinking about and practices in organizations. This leads to the discussion of ecologi- cal organizing, where we first address the notion of living organizations and Cultural Values in Strategy and Organization, pages 1–64 Copyright © 2021 by Information Age Publishing All rights of reproduction in any form reserved. 1
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