IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE ON INNOVATION IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY

Abstract

Organizational culture has been one of the most studied and theorized concepts in organizational development. New ways of working and change in technology have created a greater need for strategic innovation and co-ordination across units. The prime objective of this research dissertation is to investigate the relationship between organizational culture and innovativeness among the Sri Lankan information technology firms with an emphasis to large scale firms. The study began with assessing organization culture traits among 3 large scale IT firms based on the Denison’s organizational cultural framework and it measures four culture traits namely, involvement, consistency, adaptability and mission. It moreover assesses the types of innovation, which are predominant among the firms and also investigates whether there is a significant relationship between dominant culture traits and the innovativeness of the three firms independently.