Organizational culture and family businessA configurational approach

  1. Gregorio Sánchez Marín
  2. Antonio José Carrasco Hernández
  3. Ignacio Danvila del Valle
  4. Miguel Ángel Sastre Castillo
Journal:
European Journal of Family Business

ISSN: 2444-8788,  2444-877X

Year of publication: 2016

Volume: 6

Issue: 2

Pages: 99-107

Type: Article

DOI: 10.1016/J.EJFB.2017.05.002 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Abstract

This paper adopts a configurational approach to explore the degree of matching among typologies of organizational culture and categories of family firm. Based on a sample of 491 Spanish firms with diverse levels of family involvement and using the organizational cultural assessment instrument (OCAI), results show that family owned and managed firms and professionally managed family are characterized by a clan culture typology while market and hierarchy cultures are more relevant in non-family firms. Potential determinants and consequences of these matches are explained and discussed.

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