Coordination-cultural profile: The concept of analysis of organizations

The article discusses the approach to the integrated analysis of structural and cultural aspects of organizations. The research demonstrates the new diagnostic tool - the matrix-multiplier coordi-nating-cultural profile of organization (CCP). The CCP models' typology allows revealing influence of the interdependence on the coordinating and cultural profiles to the organization's activities. The article contains the results of the real organizations' comparative analysis. The following tasks were set: 1) identification of the peculiarities of the relationship between the structural and cultural aspects of the organizational configuration; 2) development of a methodology for analyzing the coordination and cultural profile based on the matrix of logical conjunctions of two arguments: the share of the coordination mechanism and the share of the type of culture in the relevant profiles of the organization; 3) substantiation of ideal models of coordination-cultural profile on the basis of an analysis of the combination of explicitness / implicitness of the organizational configuration and culture; 4) obtaining the results of a comparative analysis of the features of the coordination and cultural profile of seventeen Russian small business enterprises. It is shown that the mutual influence of the organizational culture and the coordination profile generates their structural and cultural complementarity.