外文翻译-我国家族企业管理(2)

外文资料翻译译文原文来源：欧洲管理杂志卷,2001年11月19日,第3期,268页-275页。

In addition to the hypothesized relationship between culture and financial performance, culture also has come to be viewed as component of other organizational effectiveness or success models (Flamholtz and Randle, 1998, 2000). It has been theorized that the role of culture, as part of a six factor framework, explains organizational effectiveness and, in turn, financial performance (Flamholtz, 1995; Flamholtz and Randle, 1998, 2000). Specifically, culture has been viewed as a critical organizational development area, or key strategic building block, of successful organizations. This framework has, in turn, been supported by further empirical research (Flamholtz and Aksehirli, 2000).

Research Question

The general research question this article addresses is: Is there a relationship between a corporate culture and the financial performance of an organization? There was also a more specific research question in the context of this study. We were interested in determining the relationship between: (1) the extent to which people in the divisions accepted the stated culture of the company and (2) the company’s financial performance.

Results

The data derived and used in this comparison are shown in a graph in Figure 3. The x-axis shows a ‘divisional agreement with corporate culture score.’ This is a measure of the degree of similarity between the desired corporate culture and the culture perceived to exist in each division. It can be viewed as a measure of cultural ‘buy-in’ by the divisions. The y-axis presents EBIT values for the various divisions.