...Daniel Orth; Philipa Maria Schuldis Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically validate the positive effect of learning on organizational resilience and, within this relationship, understand the role of unlearning in the COVID-19 crisis context and progress the current knowledge about...

...-part paper is to summarize current future research opportunities and provide an integrative view and research agenda of organizational forgetting literature. Organizational knowledge Knowledge loss Unlearning Organizational forgetting His Part II paper is organized as follows. First, we...

...) and three foci (i.e. knowledge depreciation, knowledge loss and unlearning) define current organizational forgetting literature; and the factors that influence organizational forgetting can be grouped into four clusters related to individuals, processes, tools and organizational context. Research...

...Markus F. Peschl Purpose While many approaches in the field of unlearning aim at describing, understanding or explaining the “what” and/or “how” of unlearning, this paper aims to focus on the “where-to” and the goal of unlearning. In many cases, unlearning starts off with a specific result or goal...

...Karen Becker Purpose This paper aims to provide a synthesis of the contributions to this special issue focusing on organizational unlearning. Design/methodology/approach The papers were examined in depth to identify the key contributions and areas of ongoing concern for those researching...

...Marcel F. Volland Purpose While much empirical research has examined how routines are unlearned, little is known about the intentional forgetting of rules in organizations. This paper aims to combine the literature on organizational rules and that on intentional forgetting with the aim of studying...

...Karen Becker Purpose Interest in the topic of unlearning has grown in recent years, fueled by rapid changes in the business environment and resultant organizational change. This change challenges individuals and organizations to unlearn past knowledge and practice to embrace new organizational...

...Stefania Mariano; Andrea Casey; Fernando Olivera Purpose This paper aims to evaluate how managers influence accidental and intentional organizational forgetting, i.e. knowledge depreciation, knowledge loss and unlearning. Design/methodology/approach The literature was reviewed based...

...Marta Morais-Storz; Nhien Nguyen Purpose This paper aims to conceptualize what it means to be resilient in the face of our current reality of indisputable turbulence and uncertainty, suggest that continual metamorphosis is key to resilience, demonstrate the role of unlearning in that metamorphosis...

...Nhien Nguyen Nhien Nguyen can be contacted at: nhien.research@gmail.com Unlearning or ‘How NOT to Be Governed?’ Edited by Nader N.   Chokr Societas – Imprint Academic, 2009 Exeter, UK & Charlottesville, USA 92 pp. ISBN 978-1-845-40164-1 . © Emerald Publishing Limited...

...Nhien Nguyen Purpose This paper aims to provide an overview of the concept ‘organizational unlearning’ and its development since it was first introduced to the management literature and presents a useful perspective that can help to advance the conceptual development of this topic. Design...

...Max Visser Purpose Organizational learning and unlearning are often viewed as different and distinct concepts in the literature. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the unlearning concept and reassess its position vis-à-vis learning, in particular second-order and double-loop learning...

...William H. Starbuck Purpose This paper aims to summarize four decades of research into organizational adaptation, learning and unlearning. Design/methodology/approach The most important contributions to this stream of research have been case studies of organizations struggling to survive...