Organisational Memory as a Function

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Felix Langenmayr

   Pages 15-24

3. Social memory studies

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   Pages 25-66

4. The concept of the organizational memory funtion

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   Pages 67-87

5. Case context: Entertain Corp.

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   Pages 89-118

6. The organizational memory function at Entertain Corp.

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   Pages 119-144

7. The contingency of possible pasts and futures at Entertain Corp.

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   Pages 145-166

8. Concluding reflections and contributions

   • Felix Langenmayr

   Pages 167-179

9. Back Matter

   Pages 181-194

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This book is about the past as well as the future in organisations in general and about an organisation’s temporal contextualisation in particular. The author analyses, how organisations are able to construct a present with respect to their past and future. The study is based on an empirical case study, in which an R&D department has been followed for a six month-period in order to analyse how an organisation orients itself with respect to its past, present and future from the perspective of communication-centred social systems theory.

• Luhmann
• System Theory
• Social systems theory
• Social memory
• contextualization

• Department of Business Administrati, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

  Felix Langenmayr

Felix Langenmayr works as a consultant in the field of IT management and digitalisation of organisations. Next to this he is a researcher at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. His current research focuses mainly on temporality in organisations and the communicative constitution of organisations.

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