Personality, Culture, and Organization

1 April 1986

journal article
Published by Academy of Management in Academy of Management Review

Vol. 11 (2) , 266-279
https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.1986.4282917

Abstract

In a previous paper, the links between executive personality and the strategic and organizational orientations of troubled firms were examined. In the present paper, original typologies of neurotic styles and corporate pathology are used, but the two are related using the concept of organizational culture which provides a useful vehicle for linking personality with strategy. In the previous paper it was argued that the personality of the top executive could influence strategy only in centralized firms; now, it is believed that through culture this can happen even in decentralized organizations. Several sets of hypotheses are generated to formalize this position.

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