Building organizational memories will you know what you knew? /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Girard, John P., 1961-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.
• Subjects: Corporate culture.; Organizational learning.; Knowledge management.; 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
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"This book provides relevant theoretical frameworks, latest empirical research findings, and practitioners' best practices in the area of organizational memory"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Section 1. The Enablers of Organizational Memories
• 1. Organizational Culture and The Management of Organizational Memory / Peter Stoyko
• 2. Downsizing and Building Organizational Memory: A Paradoxical Relationship Between Brain-Drain and Brain-Gain / Nicholas Bowersox
• 3. Effective Stakeholder Knowledge Sharing for Effective Organizational Memory / Nicholas P. Robinson, Prescott C. Ensign
• 4. Revising the SECI Model for American Organizational Culture / Jerry Westfall
• 5. Knowledge Transfer within Multinational Corporations, An Intercultural Challenge / Parissa Haghirian
• Section 2. The Components of Organizational Memories
• 6. Valuing a Multiplicity of Views: How to Tap Informal Networks to See the (W)hole / Patrice Dunckley, Suzanne Roff-Wexler
• 7. Organizational Knowledge Sharing Networks / Haris Papoutsakis
• 8. Lessons Learned As Organizational Project Memories / Raul M. Abril, Ralf Müller
• 9. Will You Recall What You Knew? / Jerry Westfall
• 10. Added Value of Ontologies for Modeling an Organizational Memory / María de los A. Martín, Luis Olsina
• 11. The Collective Process and Memory of Strategic Management / Juha Kettunen
• Section 3. Organizational Memories in Action
• 12. Organizational Memory Challenges Faced by Non-Profit Organizations / Kimiz Dalkir
• 13. Creating and Sustaining Inter-Organizational Memory, a case study / Susan McIntyre
• 14. Associative Patterning: The Unconscious Life of an Organization / David Bennet, Alex Bennet
• 15. A Manifesto for the Preservation of Organizational Memory Associated with the Emergence of Knowledge Management Educational Programs / Michael JD Sutton
• Section 4. Selected Readings
• 16. An Organizational Memory Tool for E-Learning / Marie-Hélène Abel
• 17. Understanding Organizational Memory / Sajjad M. Jasimuddin, N.A.D. Connell, Jonathan H. Klein
• 18. Managing Knowledge in Organizational Memory Using Topic Maps / Les Miller, Sree Nilakanta, Yunan Song, Lei Zhu, Ming Hua
• Compilation of References
• About the Contributors
• Index.