Transactive directories of organizational memory: towards a working data model
Document Type
Journal Article
Faculty
Faculty of Business and Law
School
School of Management / Centre for Innovative Practice
RAS ID
14998
Abstract
Transactive memory system is a term from group psychology that describes a system that helps small groups maintain and use personal directories to allocate and retrieve knowledge. Such systems have been observed at the level of whole organizations, suggesting that they provide a means for conceptualizing the exploitation of organizational memory. In this paper, I describe a longitudinal investigation of a global engineering consulting firm in which I used inductive analysis of interview data to map and then develop a conceptual entity-relationship model of organizational memory. This model formed the basis for a transactive directory to facilitate knowledge retrieval and allocation in the firm.
DOI
10.1016/j.im.2012.01.002
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Comments
Jackson, P. D. (2012). Transactive directories of organizational memory: towards a working data model. Information and Management, 49(2), 118-125.