The relationship between organizational culture, entepreneurial orientation, innovation and firm performance

Organizational culture is constituted from the behavior of the shape about organization's beliefs, assumptions, their values, and rules. Culture is the foundation and a building block of a firm. Entrepreneurial orientation supports guiding to the firm's strategies which they will use in order to continue their existence. Innovation is a paramount thing for firm's existence in competetive economoy. In this study, the relationships among organizational culture, entrepreneurial orientation, innovation and firm performance were examined. The cognitive obtained as a result of these studies were tested on 155 firm's employees which output in manufacturing area in Istanbul. Results obtained from regression and correlation analysis of public surveys showed that organizational culture, entrepreneurial orientation, innovation and firm performance are related with each other meaningfully. As a result, organizational culture, entrepreneurial orientation, innovation has a positive influence on the firm performance. In this context this study shows that the firms in order to be successful in today's very competitive economy should develop organizational culture, entrepreneurial orientation and innovation perspectives; such as orientation within the firm, getting professional advice from outside of the company.