We began the Organizational Memory (OM) mini-track at HICSS-27. The purpose was to "provide a forum for information systems and other related researchers and practitioners to share ideas and theories about organizational memory and organizational memory systems." This forum proved highly successful generating more than 30 papers over a 5-year period, including some that were later revised and published as part of a special issue of the Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce. While interest in the concept of OM has increased over the decade, its manifestation as Knowledge Management (KM) in the practitioner domain limited the types of research that were submitted to the mini-track. In response to this trend, we renamed the mini-track as Organizational Memory and Knowledge Management.Based on feedback from last year's session participants, we have further expanded our scope this year to include Organizational Learning (OL). It is evident that OL can not be easily separated from the concepts of OM and KM. However, the nature of submissions to this year's mini-track made it clear that KM and KM systems are the key focus items within this research domain.
Citation:
Joline Morrison, Lorne Olfman, "Knowledge Management, Organizational Memory and Organizational Learning," hicss, vol. 3, pp.3019, 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 3, 2000