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Relationships are cultural, because interactions depend on meanings and symbols, under different cultural perspectives. In this chapter, we present a framework that focuses on the development of inter-organizational culture, which is structured by considering, on the one hand, the three-perspective framework of organizational culture, proposed by Martin, Frost, and O’Neil (2006), and, on the other hand, its initial, intermediate, resultant and weakening elements. Specifically, we explain and discuss the framework’s part related to the cultural perspectives of integration, differentiation and fragmentation between supplier and customer, represented graphically by ellipses and the resultant overlaps. Inter-organizational culture occurs in the overlapping areas between organizations, in a cultural perspective of fragmentation. It can be seen as a culture of intersection, because of the association of cultural perspectives between suppliers and customers.
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Larentis, F., Antonello, C.S., Slongo, L.A. (2019). Inter-organizational Culture and the Cultural Perspectives. In: Inter-Organizational Culture. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00392-0_2
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