Cultura organizacional: Conceptualizaciones y metodologías detrás de un concepto complejo

Abstract

Approaching the cultural dimension of companies is a recurrent, but also controversial and complex task. In its conceptualization, operationalisation and utilization in management, the organizational culture shows heterogeneous theoretical and empirical approaches, making it difficult for researchers to reach a consensus. Considering the company as a place of symbolic and identity creation that gives meaning and sense to the action of organization's members, the aim of the ar ticle is to revise from a critical standpoint the main theoretical and methodological approaches of organizational culture present in Organizational and Labour Studies.Moreover, this paper intends to identify the principal tensions and consensus existing around the concept and to weigh up his heuristic utility.