Abstract
Organizational cultures can vary a lot from a company to another. As we have seen in class, they are influenced by many different factors like the cultural-background of the employees, the country in which the company is implanted in, the size of the company, the industry etc… This amount of factors makes it rare for companies to have exactly the same corporate cultures. They become more complex and more distinctive from each other.
In the last decades, corporate cultures have evolved a lot. As Eric Van de Steen states in his paper On the Origin and Evolution of Corporate Culture, it went from small family owned businesses to huge international organization implanted all around the world. Today, companies often deal with workers, clients, suppliers and partners from many different cultural backgrounds. They are more open to the international market and therefore have to adopt new corporate cultures in order to find a way to successfully manage a multicultural company.
