The Effect of Organizational Culture on Knowledge-Based Companies

Organizational culture is a subject that has found its way in management knowledge and in the realm of organizational behavior. Following new theories and researches in management, organizational culture has become increasingly important and has formed one of the main and central issues of management. According to the regulations of recognition of knowledgebased companies and institutions, knowledge-based companies are private or cooperative institutions that in order to increase science and wealth, economic development based on knowledge and realization of scientific and economic goals in order to expand invention and innovation and finally commercialization of research and development results (including design and production of goods and services) in the field of superior technologies and with great added value (especially in the production of related software) is formed. The purpose of this article is to introduce a variety of organizational culture and organizational culture models by reviewing the literature of the subject and the background of the research. In this research, the research method is descriptive and library. By examining the theoretical foundations of organizational culture, the types of models used in this field have been identified and then introduced by knowledge-based companies. The results of this study can be used by management researchers in all trends as well as knowledge-based companies.