The sum of experience and capabilities of individual members of an organization is an important factor that defines the experience and the capabilities of the organization, influencing directly its performance and efficiency (Grusky 1961; Shaw 1981). The degree of organizational learning defines the ability of the organization to transform the experience and the capabilities of individuals into...

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...

Humans are very effective in remembering by abstraction, pattern exploitation, or contextualization. On the other hand, humans are also capable of forgetting irrelevant details, an important role in the human brain helping us to focus on relevant things instead of drowning in details by remembering everything. The research question that we address in this paper is: Can we learn from human remem...

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...