The Role of Organisational Culture on the Road to Corporate Sustainability

Abstract

The aim of this Master’s Thesis, is to find the characteristics that can explain the success of an organisation to implement corporate sustainability policy, by answering the following research question: What characteristics of organisational culture can explain the success of the implementation of corporate sustainability policy in an organisation? This question is answered by conducting an extensive literature research on the concepts of corporate sustainability as well as organisational culture, and on what this culture ought to look like. This will be combined in the form or a framework consisting of seven characteristics of organisational culture that can have a positive impact on the implementation of corporate culture. Two existing frameworks are being used as red threads to fulfil the aim: Schein’s model of organisational culture (1992; 1996a;1996b; 2010) and the LEAPFROCS model by developed by Witjes (2017a).