Abstract
In this brief essay, we provide additional context for this special issue on culture and strategy and comment on the organizaing framework proposed by Bob Gibbons, Jordan Siegel, and Roberto Weber in their introductory essay. The origins of this special issue trace back to the first annual Berkeley Culture Conference, which took place in January 2019 as part of the broader Berkeley Haas Culture Initiative (BCI) that the two of us codirect. One of BCI’s central aims is to address the fragmentation that currently plagues organizational culture research by bringing together scholars across the domains of strategy, economics, psychology, sociology, and organizational behavior to develop a more coherent and unified research agenda. In addition to our ongoing annual conference, which we encourage strategy scholars to submit papers to and attend, we reasoned that a special issue of a forward-looking journal such as Strategy Science might also help advance our core research objective.
“A Psychologist and Sociologist Join Strategists for Breakfast: Building a Framework to Understand Culture and its Relationship to Strategy.” Strategy Science (introductory essay for special issue on organizational culture and strategy that I co-guest edited).