Book contents
- Organization as Time
- Organization as Time
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Organization as Time
- Part I The Politics of Time: Ontologies and Metaphysics of Organization as Time
- Part II Re-orienting Critique in Organization Studies? Exploring Jointly Time and Politics
- Part III New Ways of Organizing Work, Digitality and the Politics of Time
- Part IV History and Duration: Making Things Last, Enduring Politics and Organizing
- 14 Times Alla Turca E Franga
- 15 Temporality and Institutional Maintenance
- 16 A Time for Justice?
- 17 Organizational Memory as Technology
- Conclusion: Time and Political Organizing
- Index
- References
17 - Organizational Memory as Technology
from Part IV - History and Duration: Making Things Last, Enduring Politics and Organizing
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 June 2023
Book contents
- Organization as Time
- Organization as Time
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Organization as Time
- Part I The Politics of Time: Ontologies and Metaphysics of Organization as Time
- Part II Re-orienting Critique in Organization Studies? Exploring Jointly Time and Politics
- Part III New Ways of Organizing Work, Digitality and the Politics of Time
- Part IV History and Duration: Making Things Last, Enduring Politics and Organizing
- 14 Times Alla Turca E Franga
- 15 Temporality and Institutional Maintenance
- 16 A Time for Justice?
- 17 Organizational Memory as Technology
- Conclusion: Time and Political Organizing
- Index
- References
Summary
How does organizational memory function in the context of digital computing? Organizational memory studies are rooted in information systems approaches that emphasize data storage and retrieval. For some time, however, such technical approaches have become replaced by studies of the human processes involved in remembering, and in social influences affecting the reframing of memories in light of collective influences. However, this analytical emphasis on human (individual and social) aspects stands in contrast with the growth of the use of information technology in organizations. Computers and networked devices not only send, receive, process and store massive amounts of communication, they also automatically generate data through sensors, cameras and algorithms. Moreover, 21st century media are focussed on feeding information back to the user (or organizational agent) to influence their choices, decisions and behaviour in real time. In this chapter we seek to contemplate how organizational memory works in such contemporary technical contexts. Drawing specifically on the media theorists Bernard Stiegler and Mark Hansen we contrast analogue and mechanical forms of memory from digital, computing based ones.
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- Organization as TimeTechnology, Power and Politics, pp. 375 - 396Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
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