This paper provides an overview and discussion of the rapidly growing literature on
organizational memory studies (OMS). We define OMS as an inquiry into the ways that …

Time is gaining recognition as an important research perspective, yet the assumptions,
concepts, and boundaries of this perspective vary greatly across different fields. This …

Research on the “uses of the past” in organizations and organizing is flourishing. This
introduction reviews this approach to integrating history into organization studies and …

We introduce the concept of places of social inclusion—institutions endowed by a society or
a community with material resources, meaning, and values at geographic sites where …

Situated views demonstrate how ongoing activity is both framed by temporal structures and
serves to reproduce those same structures. Yet, recent research on temporality shows that …

In this paper, we review and synthesize the growing sociology-informed literature on
organizational memory studies, which focuses on collective memory as a social construction …

This study focuses on how ideas of 'digitalization'are discursively constructed in the Swedish
steel industry. Using a discursive psychology approach, we identify seven interpretative …

Organizations commonly regard memories of pain and destruction as being unwanted. In
this article, we consider the largely undertheorized potential that painful pasts can have for …

The organic and hence perishable nature of food makes it particularly useful for
understanding how the temporal dimension of materiality influences organizing and …

Despite growing interest in time, history, and memory, we lack an understanding of the multi‐
temporal reality of organizations–how past, present, and future intersect to inform …