Article
The economic efficiency of corporate culture
Article first published online: 16 FEB 2007
DOI: 10.1002/smj.4250090712
Copyright © 1988 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Strategic Management Journal
Special Issue: Strategy Content Research
Volume 9, Issue S1, pages 115–126, Summer 1988
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Camerer, C. and Vepsalainen, A. (1988), The economic efficiency of corporate culture. Strat. Mgmt. J., 9: 115–126. doi: 10.1002/smj.4250090712
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Abstract
Corporate culture is a set of broad, tacitly understood rules which tell employees what to do under a wide variety of unimaginable circumstances. We explain how culture can be economical, and suggest when different types of cultures will flourish.

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