The CVM model builds on two underlying dimensions to explore organizational cultures: one dimension reflects the extent to which an organization is focused on its internal or external functioning; the other reflects the extent to which an organization has an orientation of control or flexibility. Hence, first dimension has an internal, person-oriented emphasis and characterized by integration and maintaining activities versus an external, organization-oriented emphasis and characterized by differentiation and competitiveness. Second dimension has an emphasis on stability and control, characterized by mechanistic processes versus an emphasis on flexibility and change, characterized organic processes.