ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that the 'Teams' are more innovative and flexible, which leads to the question of how to achieve them. If national culture influences organizational culture, then the question touches upon the sensitive issue of how to modernize Germany and how to trigger reforms that permit more modern types of organizational cultures to emerge. The discussion of organizational performance is thus closely connected to Germany's ongoing process of modernization. The chapter presents the discourse on the relation between national culture and economic performance. It outlines the cultural elements of economic performance in Germany. The chapter focuses on other social systems in Germany: the military, the university, and the school sector. It argues that, like the economic field, the spheres too are riddled with a certain skepticism about modernity and reforms. Based on the argument that Germany's reform problems are culturally rooted, the chapter also presents a 'laundry list' of cultural obstacles to Germany's further economic development.
