Theoretical studies of cooperative behavior have focused on decision strategies that depend on a partner's last choices. The findings from this work assume that players accurately remember past actions. The kind of memory that these strategies employ, however, does not reflect what we know about memory. Here, we show that human memory may not meet the requirements needed to use these strategies...

The information technology industry is characterized by high employee turnover. Previous research on employee turnover has focused on elucidating the antecedents of turnover and suggesting staff retention strategies. However, little research has been devoted to studying how the undesirable effects of IT turnover can be mitigated. As a result of turnover, information system development (ISD) tea...

Purpose – To determine the impact of organizational forgetting on knowledge-intensive firms and the circumstances in which the loss of distinctive knowledge takes place. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical research consisted of a qualitative proposal based on two case studies in Higher Education involving situations of organizational forgetting. Findings – A framework for conceptualisin...

We examined the potential cost of practicing suppression of negative thoughts on subsequent performance in an unrelated task. Cues for previously suppressed and unsuppressed (baseline) responses in a think/no-think procedure were displayed as irrelevant flankers for neutral words to be judged for emotional valence. These critical flankers were homographs with one negative meaning denoted by the...

This paper constructs an online community organizational double-layer learning structure model based on exploration-exploitation models. In this way, the authors examine effect how as well heterogeneous teams affects work knowledge performance (OWCOKP) with leaders forgetting and without forgetting. First, results suggest inverted-U relationship between degree of different team member connectiv...