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AbstractWe examine the impact of corporate culture on environmental performance using a sample of 7199 firm-year observations over the period of 2002–2018. We find that stronger corporate culture improves environmental performance, measured by the amount of toxic chemical release (TCR). Our result is both statistically and economically significant. We also show that cultural norms of innovation, quality and teamwork as well as a technology-oriented corporate culture have a greater impact on enhancing environmental performance. Further analyses show that managerial competence and strong institutional ownership moderate the relationship between corporate culture and environmental performance. We introduce the decomposition of expected and unexpected components of TCR and document that firms with a strong corporate culture implement strategies to reduce the unexpected component of TCR in addition to the expected component of TCR. Finally, we document that strong corporate culture and environmental performance improve firms' financial performance. Our results are robust to several sensitivity tests and procedures to mitigate endogeneity and self-selection problems. From a practical point of view, our findings suggest that a firm's culture can determine its environmental sustainability and ethical practices.

Marketing concept and market orientation -- Preliminary empirical analysis -- Statistical data analysis -- Corporate culture and the market orientation -- The machine tool industry -- Case studies -- Conclusions, limitations, and future research

There is a strong link between excellence — a major theme of the 1980s — and corporate culture. This article outlines the requirements of organisations striving for excellence and how management development programmes can be effective in assisting them.

The purpose of the article is to study approaches to the development of corporate culture of healthcare workers in terms of forming a tolerant attitude to patients belonging to various ethno-cultural and confessional groups. This topic has become relevant not only due to the need to improve the quality of medical care provided to the population, but also due to the increased requirements for medical organizations in attracting extra-budgetary funds through import of medical services. Among the measures of managerial actions is further development of the foundations of the corporate culture of employees of medical organizations, which can contribute to solving the problem of attracting patients belonging to different national and religious groups. The results of the analysis (systematization of scientific literature and sociological survey in the form of interviews) of the main problems, the solution of which is associated with development of corporate culture, show that the following issues come to the fore: successful communication of doctors and nurses with patients; differentiation of opinions on organ transplantation (donation); critical situations connected with euthanasia, termination of pregnancy, death of patient (including suicide); attitude to the issues of life reproduction (artificial conception, surrogacy, cloning); difficulty of observing rituals during the treatment of patients. This article presents conclusions on the analysis of two above problems and possible approaches to their solution: 1) communication of medical workers with patients; 2) attitude to organ transplantation. The authors propose measures for formation of new competencies in the corporate culture (as a set of formal and informal requirements in a medical organization imposed on its employees) aimed at preventing and overcoming conflict situations arising from misunderstandings in the relationship between patients and medical staff.

This book explores the value component of corporate culture of companies and their relationship with production efficiency and personal values of the employee. The authors combine both qualitative analysis of the experiences of leaders of these organizations and the most advanced quantitative analysis regarding the corporate performances.

AbstractIn recent years, various studies have highlighted the opportunities of artificial intelligence (AI) for our society. For example, AI solutions can help reduce pollution, waste, or carbon footprints. On the other hand, there are also risks associated with the use of AI, such as increasing inequality in society or high resource consumption for computing power. This paper explores the question how corporate culture influences the use of artificial intelligence in terms of sustainable development. This type of use includes a normative element and is referred to in the paper as sustainable artificial intelligence (SAI). Based on a bibliometric literature analysis, we identify features of a sustainability-oriented corporate culture. We offer six propositions examining the influence of specific manifestations on the handling of AI in the sense of SAI. Thus, if companies want to ensure that SAI is realized, corporate culture appears as an important indicator and influencing factor at the same time.