THEORY 45

JOHNSON AND SCHOLES’ CULTURAL WEB

Use this to understand what constitutes appropriate or inappropriate behaviour within your organisation.

Gerry Johnson and Kevan Scholes’ cultural web model depicts the culture of an organisation using seven interlinked elements. These elements form a set of behaviours that identify what are considered appropriate or inappropriate behaviour in the organisation.

Paradigm

Source: Adapted from Johnson, G., Whittington, R., and Scholes, K., Exploring Strategy: Text and Cases (9th edn) (Pearson Education, 2011).

The paradigm is the set of assumptions about the organisation which are taken for granted and ...

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