Cultural Leadership

Cultural Leadership in Organizations Author(s): Harrison M. Trice and Janice M. Beyer Reviewed work(s): Source: Organization Science, Vol. 2, No. 2 (May, 1991), pp. 149-169 Published by: INFORMS Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2635191 . Accessed: 27/02/2012 21:01

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ORGANIZATION SCIENCE Vol. 2, No. 2, May 1991 Printed in U.S.A.

CULTURAL LEADERSHIP IN ORGANIZATIONS*

HARRISON M. TRICE

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JANICE M. BEYER

New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, 379 Ives Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 Universityof Texas at Austin, Graduate School of Business, Austin, Texas 78712

Although there is general recognition that leadership is important for organizational cultures, the issue of how leadership affects culture has received only scattered attention. Existing analyses have tended to focus on how leaders create or change cultures, ignoring the role that leadership plays in maintaining cultures. This paper focuses on how cultural leadership that innovates, by either creating or changing organizational cultures, is likely to differ from that which maintains organizational cultures. Hypothesized linkages are advanced between nine elements of cultural leadership-drawn from the literature on charisma-and its consequences. The predictions made are derived from a synthesis of existing theory and insights gained from...