Оrganizational Logic in the Context of National Culture

The problems of the specifics of organizational practices’ determination by the features of national culture and the coherence of organizational logic as the legitimating principle of the institutionalized power relations and values of national culture are discussed. The question of various forms of organizational logic (which is defined as a legitimating principle of the institutionalized power relations (Castells)) in different cultural (national & regional) contexts is stated. The main purpose of the study is to construct a model of the impact of national cultural values on the organizational effectiveness of enterprises. The survey involved 198 respondents who are employees of various organizations of the Udmurt Republic, Russia (residing in mainly Russian-speaking (N=86) and Udmurt-speaking (N=112) areas of the region). Techniques applied to collect empirical data are VSM-13 (The Values Survey Module) by G. Hofstede used for diagnosing features of national culture; and OCAI (Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument) by K. Cameron and R. Quinn used for measuring the specifics of organizational culture. The main statistical method of the obtained data analysis is structural equation modeling (SEM). A final (a posteriori) structural model proving our hypothesis that parametrical characteristics of organizational culture are conformed with values of regional culture in the organizations functioning in the territory with various cultural backgrounds have been constructed. The work conclusions state that the organizational logic which is shown in various forms in different institutional and cultural contexts regulates the space of organizational values according to the cultural background, and conforms the system of values and ideas of the way of organization activity implementation (value orientations, beliefs, norms, rules, behavior models and interaction patterns shared by the members of the organization and giving sense to their activity) with values of the macro cultural environment. The reported study was funded by RSF according to the research project №15-18-00049.