A community of practice has recently been defined as “a flexible group of professionals,
informally bound by common interests, who interact through interdependent tasks guided by …

A revealing and surprising look at how classification systems can shape both worldviews
and social interactions. What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of …

A growing concern for organizations and groups has been to augment their knowledge and
expertise. One such augmentation is to provide an organizational memory, some record of …

Designing Organizational Memory: Preserving Intellectual Assets in a Knowledge
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This articleis a survey of some methods, techniques and tools aimed at managing corporate
knowledge from a corporate memory designer's perspective. In particular, it analyses …

Collaborative information technologies have been claimed to enhance collaboration in
organizations, under certain conditions. This claim was found problematic in several …

Reexamining organizational memory Page 1 58 January 2000/Vol. 43, No. 1
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In this essay, we review, critique, and reconceptualize organization theory's understanding
of organizational memory. We find that organization theorists have underestimated the …

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Recent advances in information and communication technologies have provided a
substantial push towards the codification of organizational knowledge and practices. It is …