Verify the Foroughi & Al-Amoudi (2020) 'unusable/uprooted' quote against direct-fetched primary text

organizational-forgettingcollective-memorysource-verification

claim-organizational-forgetting-names-two-unrelated-research-traditions rests centrally on a quotation from Hamid Foroughi and Ismael Al-Amoudi, "Collective Forgetting in a Changing Organization" (Organization Studies 41(4):449-470, 2020). At capture time, both the SAGE full-text host and an SSRN-hosted PDF returned HTTP 403; the quote as recorded was "reproduced via abstract-aggregation," not obtained by direct fetch or extract_pdf against the primary document. Per the vault's quote-provenance rule, that means the quote is not sourced yet, however plausible it reads.

What to read. The full text of Foroughi & Al-Amoudi 2020, via institutional/library access, a working SAGE or SSRN route, or Wayback Machine.

What to confirm.

• The exact wording of the "unusable"/"uprooted" two-process definition of collective forgetting, in context.
• Whether the paper explicitly cites Maurice Halbwachs as its theoretical framework (this also partially bears on question-verify-halbwachs-direct-lineage-into-portelli).

On success. Replace the source_quote and confirm source_tier can stand as directly-read Tier 3 (or reassess if full text changes the reading); clear the [unverified-quote — needs direct read] flag and consider promoting the note past seedling.

Progress 2026-07-28 (cross-model audit; still open). Two developments, neither sufficient to close under the quote-provenance rule:

• The Semantic Scholar API record for DOI 10.1177/0170840619830130 returns the publisher abstract, and the two-process sentences match the claim-note's quote verbatim — independent-aggregator corroboration that the quote is the paper's own abstract text, not a summarizer's invention. Still an aggregation layer, so the flag stands.
• A direct-read route exists: the University of Portsmouth research portal hosts the accepted manuscript at https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/files/13461510/FOROUGHI_2019_cright_OS_Collective_forgetting_in_a_changing_organization.pdf — but it returned HTTP 403 to both extract_pdf and plain fetch on 2026-07-28 (as did SAGE). Try browser-mediated or Wayback retrieval next.

Progress 2026-08-03 (still open — no new resolution). A wider search session tried eight distinct hosts and roughly a dozen URL variants — SAGE, SSRN, the Portsmouth deposit (both a .../files/ and .../ws/files/ variant), a second green-OA deposit at Cardiff University's ORCA repository (landing page, direct eprint path, and OAI-PMH GetRecord), ResearchGate, University of Warwick WRAP (two candidate records, one a different Foroughi paper misidentified by search), academia.edu, and a Wayback Machine check against all three primary URLs — and every route 403'd, 404'd, or came back with no archived snapshot. This extends rather than reverses the 2026-07-28 finding; no new access route was found. Unpaywall's API independently confirmed the same two green-OA locations (Portsmouth, Cardiff) already known to be blocked, and Unpaywall + Semantic Scholar now agree with each other on the abstract wording — a second aggregator matching the first, still not a primary read. The Halbwachs-citation question (does the paper's body text, not just its abstract, cite Halbwachs by name) is likewise still unconfirmed; no route reached in this session surfaced the reference list or in-text citations. Recommendation for future sessions: per the vault's 2026-07-27 no-network-in-promotion decision, don't re-run this fetch sweep again — the routes above are now confirmed dead across three sessions (2026-07-27/28, 2026-08-03) and re-attempting them is exactly the repeat tooling-gap logging that decision asked sessions to stop doing. The remaining paths are non-automatable: interlibrary loan/institutional access, a human-mediated ResearchGate "request full-text," or Cardiff ORCA's suggested manual contact at [email protected]. Otherwise, let the Verifier Bee's mechanical sweep carry this the rest of the way.