This paper describes a cycle in which organizational learning and work serve each other. Experience in a real-world software development project has led us to identify several key challenges for informing software design through organizational learning. A discussion of these challenges presents steps taken toward addressing them, as well as barriers remaining. The Group Interactive Memory Manag...

Knowledge is a broad and abstract notion that has defined epistemological debate in western philosophy since the classical Greek era. In the past few years, however, there has been a raging interest in treating knowledge as a significant organizational resource. For example, some companies have started to produce supplemental annual reports reflecting their intellectual and knowledge assets, wh...

Many organizational theories are not sanguine over the chances of organizations to adapt and evolve, even if they should learn from the past through memory. Innovative search in the adaptive biology tradition leads quickly to dead ends. However, memory is useful for rendering innovative search more efficient. The concept from evolutionary biology of neutrality and drift along neutral pathways i...

The advancement of technologies and Information Systems (IS) associated with the search for success in the competitive market leads organizations to seek strategies that assist in acquisition, retention, storage, and dissemination of knowledge in the organization in order to be reused in time, preserving its Organizational Memory (OM). Organizational Memory Information Systems (OMIS) emerge as ...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to investigate knowledge management in the textile industry specifically through the relationships and interconnections of knowledge management systems, strategy and firm performance across the value chain. Design/methodology/approach – This research examines the process of acquisition, retention, maintenance, and retrieval of knowledge both within the ...

Transactive memory system (TMS) refers to the knowledge storage in individual's memory. Members in the organization rely on the knowledge network, and they have to utilize their knowledge and expertise to achieve shared goals. TMS consists of three parts: specialized team knowledge, mutual trust between members, and organized task processes (Lewis, 2003). Past research focused on the group leve...

This study is concerned with proposing a suitable organizational memory framework for Faculty Memory Information System and the development of Faculty Memory Information System (FMIS) prototype for the Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, UM. The framework portrays interaction between components that support the institution memory and the information system components that supp...

If one accepts that a rm's behavior is determined by history-dependent capabilities that adapt in a goal-directed way one would like to know how a rm's organizational structure in uences the way in which this distributed and partially tacit organizational memory evolves over time. In this paper, we study the impact that alternative information systems, incentive systems and modes of learning co...

WHAT DO WE KNOW AND HOW can we manage our knowledge assets to fulfill our organizational objectives? These are important questions for an organization. Knowledge management should enhance individual, group, and organizational learning; improve information circulation; and even support innovation. It aims to capture and represent an organization’s knowledge assets to facilitate knowledge access,...