Research Note

The Role of Organisational Culture in Workplace Strategy

Audience

Leadership teams, strategists, change leads

Core question

How does culture decide what concepts survive?

Thesis

Every concept encodes cultural assumptions — about trust, territory, autonomy. Designing for the espoused culture instead of the enacted one is the most common cause of behavioural defeat, and the causality inversion (expecting space to fix culture) is the second.

Suggested structure
  1. Espoused, enacted, desired: the three cultures
  2. How concepts collide with enacted culture: patterns
  3. Sequencing culture change and spatial change
  4. What space can and cannot do to culture
Research sources
  • Schein's culture framework
  • Competing Values Framework research
  • Workplace-culture intervention studies
Workplaced relation

None

Related methods
Full article body — in development.