should make efforts to modify its organizational culture to become more integrative.
Organizational culture plays a critical role as it is a critical means for firms to integrate
internal processes and to adapt to the external environment (Denison and Mishra,
1995). The firms with integrative cultures widely share and strongly hold values that
address the firm’s needs of internal integration and external adaptation, thereby
enhancing firm performance. Besides on a positive note, hierarchy culture – which lays
a low level of emphasis on the values of internal integration and eternal adaptation
(Cameron and Freeman, 1991) – was not found to be predominant in any of the four
high-tech industries surveyed for this study.