What links the chain: An essay on organizational remembering as practice

Organization

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 861-887

  Feldman, Regina M ^a,b   Feldman, Steven P ^a,c  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Weatherhead School of Management ^*  (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Forgetting; Morality; Organizational culture; Organizational memory; Power; Reflexivity; Tradition

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750073231     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508406068500     Document Type: Article

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