ABSTRACT

The corporate culture of Hewlett-Packard seems to be as healthy as ever. It is indispensable and conducive to their business as the founders expected. In the 1950s, Xerox had an excellent, healthy corporate culture as noticed in the principles put forth by the then president Joe Wilson. His principles are said to have been ‘faith in people, concern for customers, and economic power through innovation, marketing, patents, and worldwide presence’. Confucianist Company, a pseudonym, is a firm with unhealthy corporate culture in Japan. Ohmi Merchants' culture was, indeed, remarkably adaptive to the Three-Layer Structure of Enterprise Competitiveness. Integrity and fairness correspond to Akaki-Kokoro, an attribute of Japanese culture, and likewise forms the core part of Enterprise ethos. Confucianist Company, a pseudonym, is a firm with unhealthy corporate culture in Japan. The company has reached the stage that it could not recover itself without a genuine metamorphosis from its unhealthy culture.