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Theory and Implications

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How Organizations Remember

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“T.G.I.F.—Thank God, it’s Friday” chants Sanjay as he hurries past. Well, the new recruit has survived the week. She still has to make sense of it all; the politics, tea room etiquette, the networks and even just where things are. All she has learnt at the previous job has stood her in good stead. And the people still seem nice, although the manager has a short fuse. The stocky man whose seat she accidentally pinched was even pleasant this morning. Everything’s a trade-off, but all in all, she thinks her new job is working out pretty well.

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O’Toole, P. (2011). Theory and Implications. In: How Organizations Remember. Organizational Change and Innovation, vol 2. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7524-9_7

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