Company Spirit

Author: Rob Goffee
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: In this book, Goffee and Jones successfully accomplish what many have tried and failed to do multiple times: they define corporate culture and make the intangible clear. Through this approach, they provide a prominent and highly practical guide for senior executives who understand the soul of the company and its products, which are crucial to its success. This book discusses the fundamental paradox of corporate organizations—corporate culture—and is based on the famous article "Where Does Modern Corporate Cohesion Really Lie?" published by the authors in the Harvard Business Review. The authors spent 20 years trying to understand social relationships within various organizations and what factors truly bring social groups together. In the end, they summarized these questions to provide management professionals with valuable insights. In the book, the authors categorize all corporate organizations into four basic cultural types—network culture, profit culture, fragmented culture, and shared culture—and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of each.