Organizational knowledge, learning and memory – A perspective of an immune system
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Organizational knowledge, learning and memory have been popular topics for both academic research and practical applications over the past 20 years. But until now, these issues have been discussed independently and in a fragmented way. It is asserted that these concepts are interrelated and should be considered as a part of a system. Here, the perspective of the immune system is employed to integrate the issues of organizational knowledge, learning and memory into a framework and to explain their interrelationships. The perspective developed in this paper pioneers a micro-view to integrate and explain organizational phenomena.
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Organizational memory is a consequence of organizational learning.
“Thus, establishing the relationship that the organizational memory is a consequence of organizational learning.”
From Linking knowledge management, organizational learning and memory (2020) · cites this paper as Huang, 2013
Organizational learning can be considered as a process and organizational memory as the corresponding output.
“We can consider organizational learning as a process and organizational memory as the corresponding output.”
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- Authors
- Huang, J.-J.
- Affiliations
- Soochow University (TW)
- Corresponding author
- Huang, Jih-Jeng
- ORCID
- Huang, Jih-Jeng
- Venue
- Knowledge Management Research & Practice
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2013-08
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 230-240
- ISSN
- 1477-8238 (ISSN-L)
- 1477-8246
- OpenAlex
- W1997966810
- Cited by
- 28
- References
- 69
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2
- FWCI
- 1.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Knowledge Management Research & Practice (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Organizational Learning and Leadership
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Innovation and Knowledge Management
- Social Sciences › Communication › Knowledge Management and Sharing
- Keywords
- organizational knowledge, organizational learning, institutional memory, immune system analogy, systems approach, knowledge management
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