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Godfather Management? The Role of Leaders in Changing Organizational Culture in Transition Economies: A Hungarian-Romanian Comparison

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  • Balázs Heidrich

    (Budapest Business School, Hungary)

  • Mónika-Anetta Alt

    (Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

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The objective of the article is to examine the degree to which national culture and/or the business sector are influencing factors in organization culture change. Furthermore, this paper aims to determine whether the strengths of these factors differ in two national cultures. The subsequent hypothesis was tested on a sample of mainly Northern-Hungarian and Transylvanian Romanian organizations to establish whether there was a basis for conducting further research. If our hypothesis is correct, significant culture change is under way in the region. The study analyzes whether cultural changes took place differently in production, service and public organizations in the different transition economies

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  • Balázs Heidrich & Mónika-Anetta Alt, 2009. "Godfather Management? The Role of Leaders in Changing Organizational Culture in Transition Economies: A Hungarian-Romanian Comparison," Management, University of Primorska, Faculty of Management Koper, vol. 4(4), pages 309-327.
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    1. Heidrich Balázs & Csákné Filep Judit & Mosolygó-Kiss Ágnes, 2018. "The war of the worlds? – A passing and taking of succession in Hungarian family businesses," Prosperitas, Budapest Business University, vol. 5(3), pages 8-23.
    2. Heidrich Balázs & Csákné Filep Judit & Mosolygó-Kiss Ágnes, 2018. "The war of the worlds? – A passing and taking of succession in Hungarian family businesses," Prosperitas, Budapest Business School, vol. 2018(3), pages 8-23.

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