What is culture? : generating and applying cultural knowledge / Richard H. Reeves-Ellington ; foreword by Francis J. Yammarino.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-441) and indexes.

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This book presents a new theory of culture that attempts to present a unified taxonomy and lexicon of definitions of culture by various social scientists for use in the inter-disciplinary investigation of organizational culture. Both both qualitative and quantitative data is presented and analysed.

Part I. Defining, Modeling, and Researching Culture -- Part II. The Artifact Environments of Culture -- Part III. Building a Culture's Society -- Part IV. Analyzing Culture's Logic.

Introduction -- Part I. Defining, Modeling, and Researching Culture -- 1. Understanding Culture Through Definition and Modeling -- 2. The Challenges of Culture Research: Building a Research Model -- Part II. The Artifact Environments of Culture -- 3. Culture's Climate Environments -- 4. Culture's Leadership Environments -- Part III. Building a Culture's Society -- 5. Building Society through Knowledge Environments -- Part IV. Analyzing Culture's Logic -- 6. The Influence of Time Environments on Culture -- 7. The Moral Environments of Culture -- 8. Where Next with the Study of Culture?

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