TY - JOUR A1 - Foroughi, Hamid A1 - Coraiola, Diego M. A1 - Rintamäki, Jukka A1 - Mena, Sébastien A1 - Foster, William M. ED - Kolb, Darl ED - Huysman, Marleen ED - Dery, Kristine ED - Metiu, Anca T1 - Organizational Memory Studies JF - Organization Studies N2 - This paper provides an overview and discussion of the rapidly growing literature on organizational memory studies (OMS). We define OMS as an inquiry into the ways that remembering and forgetting shape, and are shaped by, organizations and organizing processes. The contribution of this article is threefold. We briefly review what we understand by organizational memory and explore some key debates and points of contestation in the field. Second, we identify four different perspectives that have been developed in OMS (functional, interpretive, critical and performative) and expand upon each perspective by showcasing articles published over the past decade. In particular, we examine four papers previously published in Organization Studies to show the distinctiveness of each perspective. Finally, we identify a number of areas for future research to facilitate the future development of OMS. KW - - KW - memory KW - collective memory KW - forgetting KW - historical organization studies KW - mnemonics KW - remembering KW - rhetorical history KW - social memory KW - literature review KW - organizational learning Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840620974338 SN - 0170-8406 SN - 1741-3044 VL - 41 IS - 12 SP - 1725 EP - 1748 PB - SAGE Publications CY - Sage UK: London, England ER -