艾德佳·沙因是美国麻省理工大学斯隆商学院教授,1947年毕业于芝加哥大学教育系,1949年在斯坦福大学取得社会心理学硕士学位,1952年在哈佛大学取得博士学位,此后一直任职于斯隆学院。在组织文化领域中,他率先提出了关于文化本质的概念,对于文化的构成因素进行了分析,并对文化的形成、文化的间化过程提出了独创的见解。 Edgar Shain, a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management, graduated from the University of Chicago Department of Education in 1947, obtained a master’s degree in social psychology from Stanford University in 1949 and a doctorate from Harvard University in 1952, Worked at Sloan College. In the area of ​​organizational culture, he pioneered the concept of cultural essence, analyzed the components of the culture, and proposed original ideas on the process of cultural formation and interculturalization.