Remembrance of Things Past? The Dynamics of Organizational Forgetting

By Pablo Martin de Holan, Nelson Phillips. Management Sciences, 2004

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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The process of individual unlearning: A neglected topic in an under-researched field (2014, background): “De Holan and Phillips (2004, 2011) agree about the deliberate nature of unlearning, although they do not distinguish in the same way as others between forgetting and unlearning.”
Organizational forgetting and its causes: an empirical research (2009, background): “The previous literature has defined the concept of organizational unlearning (e.g. Hedberg, 1981) and organizational forgetting (e.g. Smunt, 1987); some authors have even attempted to unify these two initial academic trends (e.g. Martin de Holan and Phillips, 2004).”
Cultural differences, MNE learning abilities, and the effect of experience on subsidiary mortality in a dissimilar culture: Evidence from Korean MNEs (2013, background): “This process may push the MNE to unlearn some of the knowledge it acquired under the influence of its home country’s culture (De Holan & Phillips, 2004).”
A Temporal Perspective on Organizational Identity (2013, background): “For example, Nissley and Casey (2002) demonstrate how corporate museums, acting as repositories of knowledge, also constitute “organizational forgetting” (Martin de Holan and Phillips 2004), as certain artifacts are excluded or withdrawn from exhibition.”
Social Remembering and Organizational Memory (2010, background): “Many other contributions to OMS do not even cite Halbwachs (e.g. Anand et al. 1998; Cohen and Bacdayan 1994; de Holan and Phillips 2004; Kyriakopoulos and de Ruyter 2004; Moorman and Miner 1998; Olivera 2000), which is symptomatic of their separation from social memory studies.”
Transferring Knowledge to Acquisition Joint Ventures: An Organizational Unlearning Perspective (2008, background): “For example, Martin de Holan and Phillips (2004) consider unlearning as the purposeful removal of established organizational knowledge.”
Cognition and Capabilities: A Multi-Level Perspective (2013, background): “…accumulate, and the compelling evidence of organizational “forgetting” (Argote & Epple, 1990; Engeström, Brown, Engeström, & Koistinen, 1990; Holan & Nelson, 2004), there is evidence to suggest that the selection of some experiences over others to encode into routines is not mechanical…”
Reflections on Organizational Memory and Forgetting (2011, background): “This decay has been attributed in part to individual-level forgetting and to organizational turnover (Argote, 1999; Huber, 1991; Martin de Holan & Phillips, 2004).”