In order to better understand the organizational phenomenon in Brazil, this research analyzed the variation of the presence of the main Brazilian cultural traits in the different life cycle stages in the companies of the food industry in the State of Paraná. The results indicate that, among the companies under study, personalism, protectionism/orientation by external authority, formalism, positive receptivity and short-term orientation are characteristics that vary according to the organizational life cycle stage; so all of them corroborate the basic research hypothesis. On the other hand, protectionism/spectator's posture, aversion to uncertainty, jeitinho, and negative receptivity did not show statistical significance to the hypothesis testing.