Organizational Memory: Processes, Boundary Objects, and Trajectories

  • Authors:
  • Mark S. Ackerman;Christine Halverson

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • HICSS '99 Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 1 - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

The term organizational memory is due for an overhaul. Memory appears to be everywhere in organizations; yet, the term has been limited to only a few uses. Based on an ethnographic study of a telephone hotline group, this paper presents a micro-level, distributed cognition analysis of two hotline calls, the work activity surrounding the calls, and the memory used in the work activity. We find a number of interesting theoretical concepts that are useful in further describing and analyzing organizational memory.