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- Dahler-Larsen, P. (1994). 'Corporate culture and morality: Durkheim-inspired reflections on the limits of corporate culture'. The Journal of Management Studies 31(1):1-18.
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Important differences between corporate culture discourse and the Durkheimian concept of morality are demonstrated. Emile Durkheim's views on moral autonomy, his diagnosis of the problematic nature of modern utilitarian values and his insistence on society as the source and the goal of morality are applied as a frame of reference that allows an identification, analysis and discussion of problematic assumptions about man, organization and society in corporate culture discourses. Corporate culture is identified in terms of its responses to 3 crises:
- Corporate culture has internalized competitiveness, or the problem-definitions as formulated by modern utilitarian economic life, as its key area of interest.
- Corporate culture points to how motivation, commitment, and control could be based on a view of man as emotional, symbol-loving, and needing to belong to a superior entity or collectivity.
- Corporate culture confirms the crisis concerning society's lack of an image of itself which it wants rather than endures.
