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An abundance of literature suggests a strong link between organization, culture, and innovation. These three concepts cannot be understood separately. Since the eighties, when culture began to be valued as a crucial factor by managers and scholars, several innovation cultural models have been developed to help understand this link. The aim of this paper is to review the most commonly used and applied theoretical models, analyze them, and propose several new elements that must be integrated into future models. Through an intensive review of the literature published between 1970 and 2016, we find seven main models, which we examine to explore their internal mechanisms. Then we analyze them as a group to identify gaps that need to be filled. As a result, our next steps proposals integrate concepts such as plurality, dynamism, and complexity to broaden the definition of organization, culture and innovation. New and far-better innovation cultural models are still to come. Cílem článku je provést rešerši a komparaci v oblasti tří základních teoretických konceptů inovační kultury podniků a navrhnout nové prvky, které by měly být začleněny do budoucího modelu.

The paper investigates how owners and/or managers are currently performing innovation activities and simultaneously managing performance and measures they are currently using to facilitate these dimensions. To achieve the goal the author evaluates and interprets the results of survey conducted in 2014 within research project 13-20123P sponsored by Czech Science Foundation. To gain data the quantitative methodology was applied in the form of on-line questionnaire survey. This data and the information collected through their further process were completed with primary qualitative data from personal interviews and secondary data from previous studies. The main conclusion of the paper rests in empirical findings that the continence still prevails in Czech business practice. Managers use modern management control tools, but usually in combination with tradition methods. Results of this study are limited to analysis of a single case study, representing starting point for further research in other industries and countries. Moreover, the results of this study are exploratory and are not to be interpreted as the only possible answer to the research questions. Článek zkoumá, jak vlastníci a/nebo manažeři uskutečňují inovační aktivity ve svých podnicích a zároveň měří a řídí jeho výkonnosti. Za tímto účelem v roce 2014 autor provedl za podpory Grantové agentury České republiky vlastní šetření. Hlavní zjištěním je skutečnost, že v českých podnicích zpracovatelského průmyslu panuje ohledně zavádění nových controllingových metod VaV zdrženlivost.