Resumen

PEREZ MARTINEZ, Armenio. Organizational Culture: Some Reflections in the Light of New Challenges . Revista Venezolana de Gerencia [online]. 2009, vol.14, n.46, pp.183-194. ISSN 1315-9984.

The objective of the article “Organizational Culture: Some Reflections in the Light of New Challenges” is to analyze the concept of organizational culture, based on the contemporary situation of organizations, as well as to describe the relationship between organizational culture and organizational strategy. To accomplish this, historical-logical theoretical methods were used to study the conceptual antecedents; analysis-synthesis and dialectical methods were used when performing the analyses. Fundamental results show that some common and invariable characteristics in the concept of organizational culture stand out permitting a valuation from the epistemological viewpoint of the possibility of conceiving new focal points for the topic of culture in organizations, as well as the relationship between organizational culture and organizational strategy.

Palabras clave : Organizational culture; organizational strategy; organizational role.