Application of the competing values framework in organizational culture researches

This paper, reviews the methodology used in the researches of organizational culture and points out that the framework of competing values is among the models which can be used as a base for researching in organizational culture field. Using this framework in organizational culture studies indicates a sort of moving toward taking distance from qualitative approach which is feature of most cultural researches. Since the above mentioned framework had been used by a considerably high number of the researchers, the paper deals with some of the most important studies and points to different dimensions of the issue and its positive features, and tries to encourage the researchers to expand this pattern in the field of the management of organizational culture and attract the attention of the managers and experts of the organizations to the necessity of using this method to recognize and change the organizational culture