THE ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE IN CREDIT UNIONS IN ECUADOR

SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

Abstract

Introduction: Organizational culture is a set of knowledge inherent to the human being when he lives in a social group for work reasons, since this coexistence of common time establishes the adoption of customs, experiences and determined values ​​that little by little this group of common ideas, attitudes and behaviors. This set of values, objectives, attitudes and practices have now become a tool of the sustainable approach for the company, because the new commercial and economic trends of the 21st century require the implementation of new management models in which commitment and institutional identity are the backbone of progress and development. In this context, the high competitiveness developed in the field of financial companies and the fragility of their support has allowed the generation of organizations with more flexible and adaptable structures that allow them to be coupled to the environment and be axes of social support while cooperatively solving its associates.

Objective: To characterize the organizational culture applied to the Savings and Credit Cooperatives of Ecuador through a systematic review of publications.

Methodology: The systematic review on the organizational culture in the Savings and Credit Cooperatives in Ecuador took publications taken from article managers such as Google Scholar, Scielo and Refseek; in the same way, repositories were used, among which we cited Dialnet, DSpace and Bibdigital. For the location, keywords such as organizational culture, institutional values, organizational identity and cooperatives were used. 132 articles were located as a universe of found, of which 25 were selected taking into account inclusion and exclusion criteria using the AMSTAR scale, with which a matrix of findings of the bibliographic references was elaborated.

Results: The organizational culture has been considered as the key to sustainable development in companies in general, and even more so in those whose characteristic is social, such as cooperatives, the greater or lesser degree of existence allows the development of business identity and empowerment of those who make it up, not only improving the institutional climate but also generating a better development perspective.

Conclusion: The Savings and Credit Cooperatives are considered as the banking alternative of companies without access to large banks, so their function beyond the economic is social, in this aspect, they are organizations in which it is The personalization and empowerment that arise from business motivation is important, here the organizational culture plays a fundamental role.