Edgar Schein described organizational culture as a tangible concept that constrains, stabilizes, and provides structure to the organization.

Edgar Schein described organizational culture as a pattern of shared basic assumptions that a group has learned as it solved its problems of external adaptation and internal integration, which works well enough to be considered valid and, therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think, and feel in relation to those problems. This definition emphasizes culture as intangible, deeply embedded in the organization, and shaping behaviors rather than being a tangible, constraining structure.