TY - JOUR A1 - Mena, Sébastien A1 - Rintamäki, Jukka A1 - Fleming, Peter A1 - Spicer, André T1 - On the Forgetting of Corporate Irresponsibility JF - Academy of Management Review N2 - Why are some serious cases of corporate irresponsibility collectively forgotten? Drawing on social memory studies, we examine how this collective forgetting process can occur. We propose that a major instance of corporate irresponsibility leads to the emergence of a stakeholder mnemonic community that shares a common recollection of the past incident. This community generates and then draws on mnemonic traces to sustain a collective memory of the past event over time. In addition to the natural entropic tendency to forget, collective memory is also undermined by instrumental “forgetting work,” which we conceptualize in this article. Forgetting work involves manipulating short-term conditions of the event, silencing vocal “rememberers,” and undermining collective mnemonic traces that sustain a version of the past. This process can result in a reconfigured collective memory and collective forgetting of corporate irresponsibility events. Collective forgetting can have positive and negative consequences for the firm, stakeholders, and society. Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2014.0208 SN - 0363-7425 VL - 41 IS - 4 SP - 720 EP - 738 ER - 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 - TY - CHAP A1 - Mena, Sébastien A1 - Rintamäki, Jukka T1 - Managing the past responsibly: A collective memory perspective on responsibility, sustainability and ethics T2 - Research Handbook of Responsible Management Y1 - 2020 SN - 9781788971959 SP - 470 EP - 483 PB - Edward Elgar ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Coraiola, Diego M. A1 - Foster, William M. A1 - Mena, Sébastien A1 - Foroughi, Hamid A1 - Rintamäki, Jukka T1 - Ecologies of Memories: Memory Work Within and Between Organizations and Communities JF - Academy of Management Annals N2 - In this paper, we review and synthesize the growing sociology-informed literature on organizational memory studies, which focuses on collective memory as a social construction of the past. To organize this literature, we present an ecological view of collective memory. Organizations, from this perspective, are conceived of as both constituted by a variety of mnemonic communities and, simultaneously, part of a broader ecology of mnemonic communities. We use this framework to guide our review of the various forms of memory work within and between mnemonic communities. Our review shows that much of the sociologically informed research has focused on memory work within communities. We also identify an emerging interest in the study of memory work between communities. In conclusion, we discuss possible future directions and outline a three-point agenda for future research that calls for a better understanding of the relational dynamics of memory with a focus on the organizing of memory, the embeddedness of memory work, and the construction of experiences of the past. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5465/annals.2021.0088 VL - 17 IS - 1 SP - 373 EP - 404 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Rintamäki, Jukka A1 - Mena, Sébastien A1 - Foster, William M. A1 - Zundel, Mike ED - Decker, Stephanie ED - Foster, William M. ED - Giovannoni, Elena T1 - The interview and researching collective memory T2 - Handbook of Historical Methods for Management Y1 - 2023 UR - https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/handbook-of-historical-methods-for-management-9781800883734.html SN - 9781800883734 SP - 412 EP - 424 PB - Edward Elgar Publishing ER -