Organizational identity and memory : a multidisciplinary approach
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Organizational identity and memory : a multidisciplinary approach
（Routledge studies in management, organisation and society）
Routledge, 2019
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Description
Organizational Identity and Memory analyzes the relationship between organizational identity and organizational memory, in particular history and commemoration. The goal is to further our understanding of the role of this relationship in processes critical to today's organizations: the evolution of organizational identity, the creation and use of organizational memory, organizational learning and change, and employee identification with organizations.
The literature on organizational memory and organizational identity has developed independently and at times in separate disciplines. Scholars have debated whether organizational identity is mutable or enduring. In this debate, organizational history, a form of organizational memory, has been a key factor, but neither side of the debate has pursued indepth the well-developed literature on collective memory to understand this relationship and its impact on organizational identity. Organizational memory defined as commemoration and history has been connected to different forms of identity, both national and organizational, but this relationship and its impact on organizational memory processes has not been explored.
Organizational Identity and Memory takes a multidisciplinary approach to explore and articulate the dynamic relationship between organizational identity and memory, drawing on work from anthropology, history, organizational studies, and sociology. A multidisciplinary theoretical framework for future research on organizational identity and memory is presented. Implications for managers are discussed with engaging insights from organizational research and practices in creating corporate museums, galleries, visitor centers, and other displays of this relationship.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The value of a multidisciplinary perspective
Literature search methods
Introduction to key concepts
The organization
Seminal work: Organizational identity
Seminal work: Organizational memory
Literature since the seminal work
Organization of the book
References
PART 1: THE CONCEPTS
Chapter 1: Organizational and collective memory
Organizational memory
The seminal text of Walsh and Ungson
Literature reviews on organizational memory in organizational studies
Literature review in information systems
The organizational memory literature since 2010
Knowledge management
Organizational learning
Collective memory as a theoretical lens for organizational memory
Commemoration and remembering as a theoretical lens for organizational
memory
Special issues focused on organizational memory as collective memory and
commemoration
Organizational memory as social remembering
Collective memory: Social science perspectives from anthropology, history, and sociology
Origins of collective memory theories: Halbwachs
Collective memory literature building on Halbwachs
Theoretical approaches to collective memory
Differentiating between collective memory and other related terms
Differentiating between history and collective memory
Schwartz on commemoration and history
Factors that influence collective memory
Social interaction and the role of the individual in collective memory
Schemas as cognitive tools in collective memory
Time and collective memory
Physical space in collective memory
Summary
References
Chapter 2: Organizational and collective identity
Organizational identity
Social actor perspective
Social constructionist perspective
Bridging the two perspectives of organizational identity
Organizational identity research in related fields
Differentiating organizational identity from other concepts
Conclusion
Organizational and collective identity: Social science perspectives of anthropology,
history, and sociology
National identity
Collective identity among other groups
Cultural identity and its development
Summary
References
PART 2: The relationships between memory and identity
Chapter 3: Relationships between collective memory and identity
Organizational identity and its relationship to memory
The relationship as it surfaces in definitions of organizational identity
Empirical studies of organizational identity related to memory
Organizational memory and its relationship to identity
The relationship as it surfaces in definitions of organizational memory
Empirical studies of organizational memory related to identity
The relationship between collective memory and identity: Social science perspectives of anthropology, history, and sociology
How memory supports identity
How identity supports memory
Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: Factors that influence the relationship between collective identity and
memory
Critical events
The role of individuals and social interaction
Generational cohorts
Power
Time
Summary
References
PART 3: Theoretical framework and implications
Chapter 5: Multidisciplinary theoretical framework and implications for theory
and research
Definitions of terms
Organizational memory
Organizational identity
Theoretical assumptions about the relationship between organizational identity and
memory
Nature of the dynamic relationship
Factors influencing the relationship between organizational memory and identity
Implications for research
References
Chapter 6: Implications for practice
Corporate museums
History of corporate museums
Social interaction and interaction between consumers and the product
Time-past, present, and future-and emotion
Stories and narratives of the past
Problematizing corporate museums
Archives
Anniversaries and memorial services
Websites
Major transitions in organizations
References
Index
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