Managing Culture in Core Facilities : A case study at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm

Sammanfattning: This thesis looks to investigate cultural effects on research organizations work with core facilities and how to adhere to the cultural setting in a core facility. Previous literature on core facilities have ignored culture as a concept and literature on organizational culture have little empirical material regarding core facilities. Through a qualitative study this thesis aims to fill some of the gaps. An overview of literature is presented and frameworks to categorize and conducting deeper analysis are chosen. Empirical material was collected from Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm which has an ongoing work with addressing issues of change and developing their CFs. The analysis shows that culture can be a cause for value misalignments, inefficient practices and create barriers for collaborations. Further it shows that an organization's need to have clear definitions, create structures which are sufficient for the culture, work with evaluation and more. As a final contribution the thesis suggests that venturing into areas such as knowledge management could be relevant for further studies.