Business and organizational culture in family micro businesses

Abstract

Organizational culture is a concept that refers to relations among employees of an organization, and is an ideal complement to the entrepreneurial culture that defines the characteristics  of entrepreneurs  in their role as promoters  of economic  development through  the  generation,  management  of family- owned production units. Our aim was to characterize the organizational culture and entrepreneurship, which enable  understanding  their dynamics  and development  of appropriate requirements for competitive development. Semi structured interviews to owners and members  of ten family businesses were  applied.  Data  through  a  hermeneutic  unit and    ontosemiotic   networks   were   analyzed, leading to resultant theoretical propositions to both organizational and cultural factors that influence the business development of the organizations studied.

The results show that the importance of organizational culture lies on the creation of behaviors, beliefs, rituals and forms of peaceful coexistence and the care of jobs beyond an economic purpose, in a social sense.