Organizational knowledge, learning and memory – a perspective of an immune system

Abstract

Organizational knowledge, learning and memory have been popular topics for both academic research and practical applications over the past 20 years. But until now, these issues have been discussed independently and in a fragmented way. It is asserted that these concepts are interrelated and should be considered as a part of a system. Here, the perspective of the immune system is employed to integrate the issues of organizational knowledge, learning and memory into a framework and to explain their interrelationships. The perspective developed in this paper pioneers a micro-view to integrate and explain organizational phenomena.

Keywords:

• organizational knowledge
• organizational learning
• organizational memory
• immune system
• interrelationship
• micro-view

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Jih-Jeng Huang

About the author

Jih-Jeng Huang was born in 1977 in Taiwan. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Information Management at Soochow University (Taiwan) and teaching research method, multivariate analysis, capital asset and pricing model and so on. He received his Ph.D. in Information Management from National Taiwan University. His current research interests include MCDM, knowledge management, behavioural economics & finance and data analysis. He has published on these interests widely in journals and conference proceedings.