A meta-analysis of methodologies for research in knowledge management, organizational learning and organizational memory: five years at HICSS

The Task Force on Organizational Memory presented a report at the Hawaii International Conference for System Sciences in January 1998. The report included perspectives on knowledge-oriented research, conceptual models for organizational memory, and research methodologies for researchers considering work in organizational memory. This paper builds on the ideas originally presented in the 1998 report by examining research presented at HICSS in the general areas of knowledge management, organizational memory and organizational learning in the five years since the original task force report.

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