Architectural Firms in Nigeria: A Study of Organizational Culture and Determinants
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Culture of organizations has received increasing attention in recent years. The
questions that remain unanswered are however: what are the dominant cultural values of
architectural firms and which characteristics of the firms determined the dominant culture of
firms? To answer these questions, we carried out a
survey of 92 architectural firms in Nigeria. The
factor which best described the cultural values of the firms was innovation and staff orientation
dimension, while the factor which least described the cultural values of the firms was the
businessorientation
dimension. The cultural value dimensions were explained by factors both
internal and external to the firms. The results show that the age, size and legal ownership form of
the firms were the firm characteristics which determined the dominant cultural values of the firms.
The leadership style of the principal was also a major cultural value determinant. This suggests
that each firm may need to adapt cultural values to their unique characteristics. The value of this
study lies in its empirical nature in investigating the dominant cultural values of architectural firms,
an area that hitherto had received little attention from scholars
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T Technology (General), TH Building construction