Organizational memories have been touted recently for their potential to enhance decision-making processes within organizations. Several organizations have acknowledged the importance of these knowledge structures and developed new organizational roles to manage them. Though a number of companies have been successful in creating and maintaining functional systems of organizational memory, data ...

This paper proposes an ontology of Organizational Memory (OM) that can guide its design, construction, evolution and evaluation. The upper level of the ontology is described using the generalized concept of Structural Memory (SM), which is a framework of types (e.g., Organizational Memory and Individual Memory) and components (contents and means) that enable the management of “know-how”. We dem...

Functional neuroimaging studies of episodic memory consistently report an association between memory encoding operations and left prefrontal cortex (PFC) activation. Encoding-related activation has been described in dorsolateral, ventrolateral and anterior prefrontal regions. We tested the hypothesis that a specific component of this left PFC activation reflects organizational processes necessa...

To cope with the already large, and ever increasing, amount of information stored in organizational memory, "forgetting," as an important human memory process, might be transferred to the organizational context. Especially in intentionally planned change processes (e.g., change management), forgetting is an important precondition to impede the recall of obsolete routines and adapt to new strate...

In line with the overall theme of this year’s OLKC conference, this paper explores the terrain that is opened up when we re-view the concept of organizational memory through some of the recent thinking and research about the nature of individual memory. We argue that many researchers in the field of organizational memory have tended to overlook this fertile source of new ideas. It is our key co...

Managing knowledge of research is one way to ensure just in time information and knowledge to support research strategist and activities. Unfortunately researcher found the vital research knowledge in IHL (Institutions of Higher Learning) are scattered, unstructured and unorganized. Aiming on lay aside conceptual foundations for understanding and developing OMS (Organizational Memory System) to...