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Studies on corporate culture have been carried out for a long time. Corporate culture has been a popular management tool since the early 1980s and, more recently, an intense activity of research on this subject (arisen from the failure of traditional cultural models) turned cultural explanations into a more valuable asset than a simple matter of “claiming the residuals” (Zingales 2015).

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    Alessandro Carretta

  2. University of Parma, Parma, Italy

    Paola Schwizer

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Carretta, A., Schwizer, P. (2017). Risk Culture. In: Risk Culture in Banking. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57592-6_2

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