Michael Rowlinson, Charles Booth, Peter Clark, Agnes Delahaye and Stephen Procter
Organization Studies 2010 31: 69 originally published online 12 November 2009
DOI: 10.1177/0170840609347056
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article title
Social Remembering and Organizational Memory
Michael Rowlinson, Charles Booth, Peter Clark,
Agnes Delahaye and Stephen Procter
Abstract
Michael Rowlinson
Queen Mary
University of London,
UK
Charles Booth
University of the
West of England,
UK
Peter Clark
Queen Mary
University of London,
UK
Agnès Delahaye
Université Lyon 2
Lumière, Lyon,
France
Stephen Procter
University of
Newcastle, UK
Organization
Studies
31(01): 69–87
ISSN 0170–8406
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Author(s), 2010.
Reprints and permissions: http://www.sagepub. co.uk/journals permissions.nav www.egosnet.org/os Organizational Memory Studies (OMS) is limited by its managerialist, presentist preoccupation with the utility of memory for knowledge management. The dominant model of memory in OMS is that of a storage bin. But this model has been rejected by psychologists because it overlooks the distinctly human subjective experience of
Citations: http://oss.sagepub.com/content/31/1/69.refs.html >> Version of Record - Feb 3, 2010 OnlineFirst Version of Record - Nov 12, 2009 What is This? Downloaded from oss.sagepub.com at PONTIFICIA UNIV CATOLICA DO on November 19, 2013 article title Author(s), 2010. If an ‘historic turn’ (Clark and Rowlinson 2004) is conceptualized as a reorientation, rather than merely a supplement to organization studies (Üsdi ken and ˛ Kieser 2004), then it should make the field more receptive to the broader humanities and social sciences. But following Walsh and Ungson (1991), organizational memory studies (henceforth OMS) has been limited by mechanical models, which studies, and ‘the explosion of interest in … collective memory, cultural memory, and commemoration’ (Bernstein 2004), or social remembering (Misztal 2003), that comes together under the general rubric of ‘social memory studies’ (Olick and Robbins 1998: 112; Olick 2008) DOI: 10.1177/0170840609347056 Downloaded from oss.sagepub.com at PONTIFICIA UNIV CATOLICA DO on November 19, 2013