collective forgetting (interpretive)

The Halbwachs-descended, narrative/social sense of organizational forgetting: the past becoming unusable as once-relevant memories lose their practical purchase, and uprooted as the social relations that carried them dissolve (Foroughi & Al-Amoudi 2020). Distinct from — and, per the vault's own retrieval geometry and the literature, largely uncited by — the vault's existing econometric organizational-forgetting hub (Argote/Beckman/Epple/Benkard), which models forgetting as a depreciating production-experience stock rather than a social or narrative process. Named as a distinct concept precisely because "organizational forgetting" is otherwise an overloaded label in the vault: two literatures, same words, unrelated mechanisms.

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• claim-organizational-forgetting-names-two-unrelated-research-traditions
• claim-halbwachs-collective-memory-is-shared-ancestor-of-interpretive-forgetting
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