In this essay, we review, critique, and reconceptualize organization theory’s understanding of organizational memory. We find that organization theorists have underestimated the historicity of memory, its associative character, and social-psychological constitution. The critical impetus of the literature review translates in the body of the paper into an alternative perspective that posits orga...

Knowledge Update (respectively Erasure) and Forgetting are two very different concepts, with very different underlying motivation. Both are tools for knowledge management; however while the former is meant for accommodating new knowledge into a knowledge corpus, the latter is meant for modifying – in fact reducing the expressivity – of the underlying language. In this paper we show that there i...

E(et+1|e0) = E(et|e0)− E(∆(et)|e0). ∗Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, [email protected]. †Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, [email protected]. ‡Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, [email protected]. §Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evans...

Following a review of prior work, the paper presents a model of organizational memory. Relying on structuration theory for its development, the model overcomes some of the problematic dualisms of conventional approaches (i.e., subjecUobject, social/technical, abstract/concrete). According to the model, co-memory (for collective memory) consists of rules and resources that recursively mediate bo...

This paper considers the politics of how organizations remember their past through commemorative settings and artefacts. Although these may be seen as ‘merely’ a backdrop to organizational activity, they form part of the lived experience of organizational spaces that its members enact on a daily basis as part of their routes and routines. The main concern of the paper is with how commemoration ...

[email protected] Abstract: The paper reviews a number of concepts and mature theories in the psychological literature on memory and forgetting. Six theories of forgetting are outlined. Issues are reviewed concerning the correspondence between concepts in psychology and knowledge management and engineering. Of the six theories, the motivated forgetting theory and the displacement theory are r...

complicacy, variety and ever-increasing changes, assumed as outstandingly evident organizational environment features, impose a situation where inconsiderate attitude or carelessness could end in loss of competitiveness or even survival among rivals. today, organizations have come to the point that nothing, but knowledge and innovation could make them desirably successful in a competitive world...

The nature of forgetting in short-term memory remains a disputed topic, with much debate focussed upon whether decay plays a fundamental role (Berman et al., 2009; Altmann and Schunn, 2012; Barrouillet et al., 2012; Neath and Brown, 2012; Oberauer and Lewandowsky, 2013; Ricker et al., 2014) but much less focus on other plausible mechanisms. One such mechanism of long-standing in auditory memory...