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Collective forgetting in a changing organization : when memories become unusable and uprooted
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Foroughi, Hamid and Al-Amoudi, Ismael (2020) Collective forgetting in a changing organization : when memories become unusable and uprooted. Organization Studies, 41 (4). pp. 449-470. doi:10.1177/0170840619830130 ISSN 0170-8406.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840619830130
Abstract
How is collective remembering inhibited by organizational changes which were not intended to manipulate it? And how does collective forgetting affect workers’ power and sense of identity? We rely on an ethnographic study of a charitable organization that went through recent organizational changes to study two processes constitutive of collective forgetting. The first process consists in the past becoming unusable because once-useful memories lost their practical usefulness for participants’ new activities. The second process consists in the past becoming uprooted because the social relations through which memories used to be shared had changed beyond recognition. Our findings provide insights into the organizational processes through which memories cease to circulate. They also help understand the complex relations between memory, power relations and participants’ sense of identity.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Organization Studies | ||||||
Publisher: | SAGE Publications | ||||||
ISSN: | 0170-8406 | ||||||
Official Date: | April 2020 | ||||||
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Volume: | 41 | ||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 449-470 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0170840619830130 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
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