Corporate Culture and the Problems of collective Action
Corporate culture is the specific collection of values and norms that are shared by members and groups in an organization. The culture involves teamwork, or collective activity. But modern theory of collective action argues that individuals in any group will have incentives to free ride and other types of opportunistic behavior. So ideal corporate modes of organization are very fragile. The dilemmas of corporate culture and collective action leads to a more general problem: correlation of economic and social rationality in human behavior.