This research project is about the past as well as the future in organizations in general and
about an organization's temporal contextualization in particular. How organizations are able …

The thinking about the relatedness of past, present, and future immanent in Western society
is to a major extent tainted by a notion of time propagated by the contemporary state of post …

St Augustine's (1992) conundrum was how time could be extended from the sound of drops
from the water clock that simply disappeared as soon as they appeared. Yet, without …

This paper investigates how a mnemonic community of a senior and junior generation of
frontline managers, respectively with first-hand and second-hand memories of the …

We offer as our main theoretical contribution a conceptual framework for how the past is
evoked in present identity reconstruction and the ways in which the past influences the …

Organizational Memory Studies (OMS) is limited by its managerialist, presentist
preoccupation with the utility of memory for knowledge management. The dominant model of …

Like the 'individual','the past'is pervasive yet under-theorized in management and
organizational studies (MOS)(Booth and Rowlinson 2006; Nord and Fox 1996). The idea of …

The need for some form of" organizational memory"(OM) has become increasingly
recognized by many organizations in the current complex and turbulent business …

In a business world predominantly oriented toward the future, it has paradoxically become
ever more common that companies turn towards their pasts. This book empirically explores …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the role of reflexivity in relation to archives
and narratives. Design/methodology/approach The authors problematize the concept of …