strong>Enterprise culture:
Enterprise culture consists in an organizational or social environment that encourages and makes initiative and innovation. An organization with an enterprise culture is usually more competitive and more profitable than a bureaucracy. Such an organization is believed to be more rewarding and stimulating to work in. A society with an enterprise culture facilitates individuality and requires people to take responsibility for their own welfare.
Characteristics:
· Enterprise culture is useful for small businesses.
· Enterprise culture is characterized by innovation, creativity, dynamism, and risk.
· It usually requires several of the following attributes: flexibility, initiative, problem solving ability, independence, and imagination.
· Enterprises flourish in the environment of nonhierarchical organizations but can be stifled (stopped from being developed) by bureaucracy.
Corporate Culture:
Corporate Culture consists in the combined beliefs, values, procedures, and atmosphere of a large business. This culture is often expressed as “the way we do things around here” and consists of largely unspoken values, norms, and behaviors that become the natural way of doing things. This culture is typically created unconsciously, based on the values of the top management or the founders of a business.
Characteristics:
· Corporate Culture is useful for large businesses.
· Corporate Culture is more natural and unconsciously created.
· In large businesses there is an unavoidable bureaucratic hierarchy.
· The leader has a very pivotal role.
Main Differences:
· The size of business in a corporate culture context is larger than in an enterprise culture context.
· In a corporate culture context there is an obvious hierarchy whereas in an enterprise culture context this obviousness does not exist.
· Corporate culture is so much associated with dress code, titles, and organizational structure whereas enterprise culture is concerned mainly with the output regardless of the rest.
People who work in small businesses or in small corporate divisions are more likely to start a business than those who work in a large firm because they gain more familiarity with the whole business process, which makes starting a business seem much more feasible.