Journal Articles 1.0 - Denison Consulting

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Contents

1 Culture & Performance
2 Global Organizational Culture
3 Leadership
4 Mergers & Acquisitions
5 Teams & Innovation
6 Organizational Culture Defined

Culture & Performance

BRINGING CORPORATE CULTURE TO THE BOTTOM LINE

This classic study was one of the first to show a close link between organizational culture and organizational performance.

DO CONSISTENT CORPORATE CULTURES HAVE BETTER BUSINESS PERFORMANCE?

Strong, consistent cultures are a big advantage, except when everything is well integrated around the values of the past. This article also shows how culture scores can predict stock prices.

PARADOX & PERFORMANCE: TOWARDS A THEORY OF BEHAVIORAL COMPLEXITY

This study, using the Competing Values Model, shows that organizational cultures that manage complexity and trade-offs perform better.

TOWARDS A THEORY OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE & EFFECTIVENESS

This study gives a lot of background about how our model was developed.

WHICH COMES FIRST, ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE OR PERFORMANCE?

This award winning article is one of the first time-series analyses of the link between culture & performance, showing that our culture measures are a good predictor of customer satisfaction.

LINKING ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE & CUSTOMER SATISFACTION

Organizational culture has a big impact on customer satisfaction. These two studies show the results!

Global Organizational Culture

A CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE ON LEADERSHIP ASSESSMENT

Leadership 360 results from leaders in over 20 countries
show a lot of commonalities, and a few important differences.

CORPORATE CULTURE & ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS: IS ASIA DIFFERENT?

This frequently cited study shows that culture results from organizations in Europe, Asia, and North America have a lot of commonalities.

ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE & EFFECTIVENESS : CAN AMERICAN THEORY BE APPLIED IN RUSSIA?

This study shows how our method can be used to understand performance differences among Russian companies, where flexibility is more important compared to US companies.

WORKPLACE DIVERSITY: IS NATIONAL OR ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE PREDOMINANT?

High levels of involvement are essential to managing diversity on a global scale.

CORPORATE CULTURE & ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS

Results from Europe, Asia, and North America show a high level of commonality across cultures.

Leadership

ALIGNING LEADERSHIP AND CULTURE : THE LEADER-CULTURE FIT FRAMEWORK

Coaching leaders with an eye to their organizational context makes a big difference!

EXECUTIVE COACHING: DOES LEADER BEHAVIOR CHANGE WITH FEEDBACK AND COACHING?

Coaching makes leaders much more aware of their style as a manager. The study shows that on balance, self scores change the most as a result of coaching.

INTEGRATED CHANGE: CREATING SYNERGY BETWEEN LEADER & ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Are your leadership development efforts designed to change your culture? Integrating organizational and leadership development efforts helps create the future.

Mergers & Acquisitions

CULTURAL DUE DILIGENCE IN MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

This how-to guide presents the options for doing cultural due diligence in organizations.

MANAGING CULTURAL INTEGRATION IN CROSS-BORDERS MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

This article provides an overview of how to approach culture in both Mergers and Acquisitions.

Teams & Innovation

WHAT PRACTICE NEEDS FROM SCIENCE REGARDING INNOVATION MANAGEMENT

Organizations that manage both “market-in” and “organization-out” knowledge flows are the best innovators.

FROM CHIMNEYS TO CROSS-FUNCTIONAL TEAMS: DEVELOPING AND VALIDATING A DIAGNOSTIC MODEL

This method was designed to help understand the differences between effective and ineffective new product development teams.

Organizational Culture Defined

DIAGNOSING ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURES

This article gives an overview of diagnostic methods and presents a validation study of our method.

**WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE & ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE?**

This classic academic article presents an overview and integration of culture and climate research.

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