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Organizational Culture



Foster Business Library research guides are aimed at University of Washington students, faculty, and staff, highlighting resources available to them; users not currently affiliated with the university may be unable to access some of these resources.
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Foster Business Library Databases:

The Foster Business Library offers an extensive collection of over fifty databases on its homepage; see under Databases. For a complete list of Foster databases, see the List of All Business Databases. Access to these databases from off campus requires that you first go to the Off-Campus Access button, in the upper right of all library webpages. These resources may not be accessed from off campus except by those with a valid UW Net ID and password. For more information on Foster business databases, click Databases, A-Z. For information on which Foster business databases to use, see the Database Index. For information on accessing Foster databases from off campus, see Database Access. For guidelines on responsible database usage, see Database Usage.

  • Gale Virtual Reference Library:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Business Databases.   The Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

    See Organizational Culture, in the Encyclopedia of Community.

  • JSTOR:   JSTOR is a subject searchable index of 360 journals, with full-text backfiles of scholarly journals, some of which date back to the 1800's. Among the collections of scholarly journals on this site are ones for Business and for Economics, encompassing over eighty journals.

    An advanced search, in business publications, in article titles, for Organizational Culture produced over sixty articles.

  • Social Sciences Citation Index:   Included under Business Databases on the Foster Business Library homepage. This database "is a multidisciplinary index, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. It "provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1956 forward."

    A search for Organizational Culture, limited to business articles, produced over five hundred references.

    Web Resources:

    Unlike library databases, Web resources are available wherever you have web access; they do not require that you access them via the Off-Campus Access button, in the upper right of all library webpages. When using web resources, be sure to evaluate the credibility of these resources. For a subject index to web resources, see Business Resources on the Web on the Foster Business Library homepage.

  • Wikipedia:   This free online user-created and maintained encyclopedia can be a good starting point for an orientation to a topic. See their extensive entry for Organizational Culture.

    Foster Business Library Reference Collection:

    The Foster Business Library Reference Collection consists of business handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other quick reference tools. It is located behind the Reference Desk in Foster, arranged by call number. Reference materials cannot be checked out; they may only be used in the library.

  • The handbook of organizational culture & climate.
    This reference work includes over twenty essays by major scholars on various aspects of organizational culture, including measurement and outcomes, dynamics, commitment, careers, etc.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD58.7 .H363 2000.

  • The IEBM handbook of management thinking.
    This handbook, part of the International Encyclopedia of Business and Management series, provides five to six-page profiles, in an A to Z arrangement, of more than 130 major thinkers in management, from Sun Tzu to fairly modern times, with recommendations for further reading.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD38.15 .I33 1998.

    See pages 275 to 277, and pages 472 to 473, and pages 567 and 568, for Organization Culture.

  • The IEBM handbook of organizational behavior.
    This one-volume work covers a large variety of topics in organizational behavior, arranged alphabetically by topic, with essays ten to twelve pages long.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD58.7 .I35 1997.

    See pages 193 to 210 for Organization Culture, by Geert Hofstede.

    Foster Business Library Books:

    The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of over 70,000 books on all business topics. To search for materials on all three campuses of the University of Washington, go to the UW Libraries Catalog, in the upper left corner of the Foster Business Library homepage. Search by keyword, title, author, series, etc.

    To limit the results of your search just to materials in the Foster Business Library collection, use the Modify or Limit options at the top of the search results and change the library location to Foster Business Library. Availablity is indicated on the right of each online catalog record. First, note in which collection, within Foster, your materials are in, since the library has ten different Collections, each in a different location and often with differing arrangements. "Available" indicates that the book should be on the shelves under that call number and available for you to check out. "Due" and a date indicates that the book is already checked out to someone and is due back on the date indicated; you can have the "Request/Place Hold" feature to recall the book for your use.

    If the material you want is not in the collections of the University of Washington, you can use the "Search Summit" feature to repeat your search in the combined holdings of over thirty cooperating libraries in Washington and Oregon. Use the "Request This Item" feature in Summit to have books in those library sent here to Foster for you to check out.

    The Foster general stacks collection is located south of the main part of the Foster Business Library, through the two pass-throughs into the basement of Balmer. The arrangement is by call number, from A (at the east end, near the Copy Center) to Z (at the far west end).

    A keyword search for Organizational Culture, retrieved over one hundred records in the university library system, including thirty records in the Foster Business Library. The online catalog lacks a subject heading for Organizational Culture; instead, see books in such subject areas as Corporate Culture, Organizational Behavior, and Organizational Change.

    Foster Business Library titles from these searches include:

    Foster Business Library Articles:

    Articles in academic journals, magazines, trade periodicals, and newspapers are one of the best sources for any kind of research. While the Foster Business Library offers a large periodicals print collection, comprising over 800 titles, articles are most easily accessed online, 24/7, in such fulltext article databases as EBSCO Business Source Premier, Factiva, LexisNexis Academic, Newsbank Infoweb, and ProQuest Databases. These article databases are available in the library or from off-campus, and provide access to over 10,000 periodicals and millions of articles.

    Library access to most ProQuest databases will terminate at the end of spring quarter 2008, except for ProQuest NewsStand, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, Historical New York Times, and the Historical Wall Street Journal. For more about this change, see UW Libraries Providing New Databases. After this change, comprehensive article searches should be performed in EBSCO Business Source Premier, Newsbank Infoweb, and ProQuest NewsStand. Also, after this change, links to the articles below will be broken.

    ProQuest Databases:

    This database--actually, a family of over two dozen databases--offers full text articles for over 10,000 publications, including scholarly journals, magazines, trade and industry periodicals, newspapers, and reports on a very wide range of topics. To find articles on specific topics, search by word or phrase by keying your search phrase into the search box--or search for your topic in the Topic Guide.

    Your search terms will be highlighted in red in each article.

    This database lacks a subject category for Organizational Culture but it is possible to do a combined subject search for SUB(Organizations) and SUB(Culture). This search produced over thirteen thousand articles but not about business organizations. A basic search for the phrase "Organizational Culture" produced over sixty-five hundred articles, with many of them not about business. The database instead advises searches for the subject Corporate Culture. A search for this subject produced over thirty-six thousand articles, including over eight thousand articles in scholarly journals, over three thousand magazine articles, over fifteen articles in trade and industry periodicals, over nine thousand newspaper articles, a hundred and fifty reports, and over two hundred dissertations.

    Combining subjects is a good way to focus a search, such as:

    • SUB(Corporate Culture) and SUB(Studies), over three thousand articles
    • SUB(Corporate Culture) and SUB(Case Studies), over two thousand articles
    • SUB(Corporate Culture) and SUB(Organizational Behavior), over nineteen hundred articles
    • SUB(Corporate Culture) and SUB(Human Resource Management), over seventeen hundred articles
    • SUB(Corporate Culture) and SUB(Organizational Change), over seventeen hundred articles
    • SUB(Corporate Culture) and SUB(Executives), over seventeen hundred articles
    • SUB(Corporate Culture) and SUB(Management Styles), over seventeen hundred articles

    Examples of articles, from the searches above, include:

    Help:


    13 February 2008.   Peter Stevens, Business Librarian, stevens@u.washington.edu