Building Organizational Memories: Will You Know What You Knew?

Much has been written about how organizations create and exchange knowledge to achieve a competitive advantage. To date, most researchers have concentrated on the present and how organizational leaders may use knowledge to create value today. However, there exists a need in literature for research focused on what leaders should be doing now to ensure the continued knowledge of the next generation of organizational leaders.

Building Organizational Memories: Will You Know What You Knew? provides relevant theoretical frameworks, latest empirical research findings, and practitioners' best practices in the area of organizational memory. Written for professionals, researchers, and academicians, this book contains a wide range of topics related to preserving organizational knowledge for the next generation.

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

• American organizational culture
• Associative patterning
• Components of organizational memories
• Downsizing and building organizational memory
• Effective organizational memory
• Effective stakeholder knowledge sharing
• Enablers of organizational memories
• Inter-organizational memory
• Knowledge transfer within multinational corporations
• Management of organizational memory
• Memory of strategic management
• Ontologies for modeling an organizational memory
• Organizational knowledge sharing networks
• Organizational memories in action
• Organizational memory challenges
• Organizational project memories
• Preservation of organizational memory