Drinking from the waters of Lethe: A tale of organizational oblivion

Management Learning

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 187-204

  Ciuk, Sylwia ^a   Kostera, Monika ^b  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Archetypes; Double loop forgetting; Ethnography; Identity; Narrative; Oblivion; Organizational forgetting

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949904077     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507609355495     Document Type: Article

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