Organizational memory/knowledge effects on productivity, a longitudinal study

This paper discusses a longitudinal study that explored the relationship between use of organizational memory and knowledge (OM/K) and knowledge worker productivity within the engineering group at a nuclear power plant. Three data points were taken over five yeas. An OM/K System (OM/KS) was identified that improved effectiveness/productivity of the organization. The basic components of the OM/KS remained the same over the study. A key and unexpected finding was that hew members of the organization did hot consider the OM/KS as effective as established members and tended hot to use the system until they became established members themselves. To explain the success of the OM/KS, DeLone and McLean's IS Success Model was adapted to OM/KS.

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