Organizational memory explains how historical experience is acquired, retained across people and organizational arrangements, and retrieved for current decisions. Walsh and Ungson’s framework helps diagnose why documentation alone is insufficient and why remembered practices need interpretation, access, and review as circumstances change.
- FamilyModel
- CategoryAnalytical Frameworks, Typologies & Heuristics
- DomainOrganization & Structure
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Analytical Frameworks, Typologies & Heuristics
Organizes dimensions, distinctions, types or questions so that a situation can be examined systematically. A framework supplies structure, a typology distinguishes forms, and a heuristic offers a usable way to orient judgment.