Predicting Innovation Climate using the Competing Values Model

Abstract

Despite the enormous amount of theoretical writing about the connections between organizational culture and innovation climate, there are relatively few empirical studies about the connections between four organizational culture types – clan, adhocracy, market, and hierarchy according to Cameron and Quinn (1999), and innovation climate. Results of empirical research in Japan, China, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Russia indicate that in Asian countries three organizational culture types – clan, market and adhocracy predict innovation climate. In Eastern European countries – Slovakia and Czech two organizational culture types – market and adhocracy predict innovation climate and in Russia one organizational culture type – adhocracy predicts innovation climate. Hierarchy culture type does not predict innovation climate at all.