Institutional memory

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The term institutional memory describes the accumulated knowledge and shared memory of an organized group of people, especially an institution such as B. an authority, government, church, company, etc.

It serves the purpose of maintaining the institution's specific knowledge over a long period of time, even if people are exchanged. The knowledge in this memory is made up of facts, knowledge, methods, experiences, behaviors, etc. Means for their preservation are verbal communications, exchange of experiences, written records, archives, databases and the like. An institution with a very long institutional memory is e.g. B. the Catholic Church .

A related area of ​​research looks at "institutional learning".

See also

• Collective memory
• Culture of remembrance
• Cultural memory
• Long-term memory
• Memory institution

Individual evidence

1. ^ Basics and hypotheses of the institutional learning approach. In: Institutional change through learning processes. VS, Verlag für Sozialwiss., Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-15001-4 , pp. 61-106.