Researchers who employ the organizational culture perspective tend to differ on their philosophical and theoretical positions. This paper examines the organizational culture perspective by identifying and analyzing the different philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of the various forms of cultural research. Based upon this examinations, the author concludes that within the organizational culture perspective, most of the researchers employing the dominant approach (i.e., “research on culture”) suffer from some theoretical as well as ethical problems. It is argued that a more subjective approach (i.e., “cultural analysis of organizational life”) will enable researchers to overcome some of these problems and thus is a more promising one.