Organizational memory: processes, boundary objects, and trajectories

TitleOrganizational memory: processes, boundary objects, and trajectories
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication1999
AuthorsAckerman, MS, Halverson, CA
Conference NameProceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS-32)
Pagination12–pp
Keywordsexpertise sharing, hotlines, information reuse, information trajectories, organizational memory
Abstract

The term organizational memory is due for an overhaul. Memory appears to be everywhere in organizations; yet, the term has been limited to only a few uses. Based on an ethnographic study of a telephone hotline group, this paper presents a micro-level, distributed cognition analysis of two hotline calls, the work activity surrounding the calls, and the memory used in the work activity. We find a number of interesting theoretical concepts that are useful in further describing and analyzing organizational memory.

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