Remembrance of Things Past? The Dynamics of Organizational Forgetting
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How organizations create, transfer, and retain knowledge has been the focus of intensive investigation by management researchers. However, one aspect of the dynamics of knowledge---organizational forgetting---has received comparatively little attention. In this paper, we draw on an exploratory, multiple-case study of learning in international strategic alliances to explore how and why organizations forget. Based on our case study, we develop a theory of organizational forgetting, discuss the role of forgetting in the dynamics of organizational knowledge, and present a typology of types of organizational forgetting.Download Info
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Article provided by INFORMS in its journal Management Science.
Volume (Year): 50 (2004)
Issue (Month): 11 (November)
Pages: 1603-1613
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Keywords: organizational learning; organizational forgetting; unlearning; knowledge management;References
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