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Author: | Klein, J. Connell, C. Jasimuddin, S. |
Title: | Who needs memory? The case for the Markovian organisation |
Journal: | Knowledge management research & practice
2007 : MAY, VOL. 5:2, p. 110-116 |
Index terms: | knowledge management organizational learning |
Freeterms: | organizational memory |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | This paper explores the contradiction of organisational memory (henceforth as: org-mem.), that is: an organisation (here as: org./orgs.) requires a memory to operate effectively, but that same memory inhibits and constrains its ability to operate effectively. A conceptual framework pioneered by Schultze and Stabell for examining contradictions in the area of knowledge management (KM) is introduced. This framework is used to distinguish btw. the conventional view and a constructivist view of org-mem. From the latter emerges a picture of the Markovian organization: an org. whose future behaviour is determined not by memories of the past but by its current state. |
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