A CULTURA NO CONTEXTO DOS ESTUDOS ORGANIZACIONAIS: Breve estado da arte

This present work seeks reflection on the research works about culture in organizations. Astime goes by, it can be observed that in Organizational Studies, as well as in the Organizational Theory, lies agreat mosaic of research works on culture, which can be verified by the amount of authors who write aboutthe subiect. It is on this symbolic pollution and proliferation of organizational studies on culture, that severalauthors lay their criticism. In Brazil, works and pieces of research on culture had gained notoriety in the late80’s and early 90’s. Fischer & Mac-Allister (2001) report that, from the studies carried out on culture in theorganizations, few actually tried to take over the challenge of associating Brazilian culture to Brazilianorganizational culture. Finally, as pointed out by Denison (1996) researches on culture would be turning awayfrom the study on the social and organizational reality and heading towards the organizational climate instead,studying the impact of the organizational systems on both groups and individuals.