Hold power up to a mirror and the reverse image you see is culture.
Power takes that entity called organization and fragments
it; culture knits a collection of individuals into an integrated entity
called organization. In effect, one focuses primarily on self-interest, the
other on common interest. So too, the literature of what we are calling
the cultural school—strategy formation as a process rooted in the social
force of culture—mirrors the power school. While one deals with
the influence of internal politics in promoting strategic change, the
other concerns itself largely with the influence of culture in maintaining
strategic stability, indeed sometimes in actively resisting strategic
change.