1.
Mohua Lahiri
– Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, India
2.
Sumita Rai & S K Tapasvi
– Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, India
Abstract
This study examines the most enduring
nature of organizational
identity by exploring its relationship
with the past in the three
metatheories that pervade the literature
– social actor, social
constructivist and social identity
and self- categorization theories.
For further exploration, we conceptualize
this past as organizational
memory. Organizational
memory has largely been studied
from the perspective of decision
making and performance in organizations,
but not in connection
with organizational identity.
The structure of organizational
memory is re-examined here with
the aid of an empirical qualitative
study. This reveals three factors
- cultural memory, system
memory and HR memory. We follow
this with a hierarchical regression
to examine the relationship
between organizational memory
and organizational identity.
