Dear Alfredo,
it depends what you would like to investigate. E.g. with the model published in
Dauber, D., Fink, G. and Yolles, M. (2012)
Configuration Model of Organisational Culture
Sage Open 2012, so far 34,377 downloads from
http://sgo.sagepub.com/content/2/1/2158244012441482 you can identfy
16 constructs which are describing
organisational cultures within and across different organisations. There is a tested questionnaire avaialable. Daniel Dauber
<d.dauber@warwick.ac.uk> is the administrator of the Organisational Coherence and Trajectory project [
http://octresearch.net/] and upon request will make the questionnaire available to you. If you are rather interested in differences in values only and a typology of value combinations based on Sagiv and Schwartz (2007) then you may refer to:
Yolles, Maurice and Fink, Gerhard, Exploring Mindset Agency Theory (December 19, 2013). Available at SSRN:
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2369874 or
http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2369874 With help of this value based approach you can identify 8 extreme types of value combinations (and balanced states inbetween) which are leading to different patterns of leadership behavior. [These types have a meaning in politics, too, since they characterize basic political attitudes].
Sagiv, L., Schwartz, S.H. (2007). Cultural values in organisations: insights for Europe, European J. International Management, 1(3)167,190
For that exercise you would have to use the Schwartz Value System questionnaire.
If you are interested in a reduced set of leadership types, then you may refer to
Cameron, K.S., Quinn, R.E., De Graff, J,. and Thakor, A.V. (2006) Competing Values Leadership: Creating Value in Organizations, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK. Available at
http://lib.nu.edu.sa/uploads/m1/16.pdf This paper contains a questionnaire for 4 leadership types.
Best wishes
Gerhard Fink
Alfredo Behrens schrieb:
CAGGJ_ge9J11qPMkJ9VsOMCb3xNUsPN8mFqSnLKXm5AD4KgZ5rg@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> This is my first incursion into a field I know so little about that I must beg your pardon for my fuzziness.
I need info on literature to get me started on figuring out what is the name of the structure like that of automotive companies and others who rely on a constellation of associated but independent companies which produce car parts according to design and suitability. The associate companies need not be close, as we have learned from the expansion of international outsourcing
Operation system developers like Microsoft, Google and Apple must hold close links to application developers as well as chip manufacturers to ensure that tehre will be demand for their, say, smartphones.
It is as if we had some sort of fishbone design with organizations like GM, Apple and others at the head, followed by an arrange of spines representing the inputs of associated companieas which are aligned with the overarching purpose of helping GM. Apple and others to sell, so as to insure their own growth.
Alternative structures? Name of the field? Seminal articles to start with?
Many thanks
Alfredo