Organizational Culture in the Financial Sector: Evidence from a Cross-Industry Analysis of Employee Personal Values and Career Success

We assess the organizational culture in the finance industry in relation to the global financial crisis and consider the potential of cultural change to improve the financial sector. To avoid (response) biases, we build on the person–organization fit literature and develop a novel, indirect method f...

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Main Author: van Hoorn, André (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2017
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2017, Volume: 146, Issue: 2, Pages: 451-467
Further subjects:B Employee outcomes
B Financial Crisis
B Cultural Change
B personal values
B P–O fit
B Organizational Culture
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