Type of publication: print
Published by: Sage Publications
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The aim of this Special Issue is to focus attention on the antecedents, processes, and outcomes of organizational memory, and how organizational memory changes over time.
This Special Issue invites submissions of papers that present theoretical conceptions and/or empirical studies of organizational memory. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Relations between individual, group, organizational, and inter-organizationa l memories;
Artifacts as elements of organizational memory (e.g., rules, procedures, technology, products, documents, archives, accounting data, company histories, biographies, organizational museums);
Extracted and interpreted embedded knowledge;
Mechanisms and dynamics of memory creation, storage and/or retrieval (information acquisition, retrieval, sharing, erasing and storing, organizing and re-organizing) ;
Information technology and the development, maintenance, and use of organizational memory;
Organizational memory and knowledge transfer within and between organizations;
The creation and use of transactive memory in organizations;
Social, cultural, and technical aspects of the organization context that facilitate or inhibit the formation of organizational memory (e.g. social relations, identity, etc.);
Psychological factors that facilitate or inhibit the formation and use of organizational memory (motivation, attention, interpretation) ;
Organizational design factors facilitate or inhibit the formation and use of organizational memory;
Political factors and the selection, retention, and creation of organizational memory (e.g. filtering, false memories, manipulation, re-interpretation of negative events, social construction of organizational histories);
The use of organizational memories (documents, emails, etc.) to reconstruct criminal and unethical behavior (e.g. Enron, Banks in the Third Reich);
Environmental factors and organizational memory (e.g. competition, environmental turbulence, time pressure, industry change, technological change, globalization, etc.);
The relationship between organizational memory and organizational outcomes (performance, innovation, etc.);
Measurement and methodology issues in studying organizational memory
Deadline: May 31, 2007, please submit papers as email attachments (Microsoft World files only) to the Editor-in-Chief, indicating in the email the title of the Special Issue.
Contact: Haridimos Tsoukas, Editor-in-Chief, ALBA, Greece and University of Warwick, UK
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