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The Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate.(Book Review)

By Denison, Daniel
Publication: Administrative Science Quarterly
Date: Saturday, March 1 2003

The Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate. Neal Ashkanasy, Celeste Wilderom, and Mark Peterson, eds. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2000.627 pp. $99.95.

The International Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate. Cary L. Cooper, Sue Cartwright, and R Christopher Earley, eds. New York: Wiley, 2001. 620 pp. $145.00.

When two 600-page handbooks appear within one year with nearly identical titles, it must mean something. But what? This review considers the content and contributions of these two handbooks while trying to interpret what they tell us about

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