institutional memory
institutional memory noun: a collective set of facts, concepts, experiences and knowledge held by a group of people inside an organization.
Noun
institutional memory (countable and uncountable, plural institutional memories)
- A collective set of facts, concepts, experiences and knowledge held by a group of people inside an organization.
- Institutional memory refers to the notion that institutions have founding aims, ideology, an official history and practices, which are remembered and passed on within the institution. Founders and other important people in the history of an institution are commemorated in various ways, such as...2016 April 8, Siobhan Brownlie, Mapping Memory in Translation, Springer, →ISBN, page 151
- Synonyms:
- organizational memory, institutional knowledge
Synonyms of institutional memory
- organizational memory
- institutional knowledge
Forms of institutional memory
| plural | institutional memories |
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Questions about institutional memory
- What does institutional memory mean?
- Institutional memory means a collective set of facts, concepts, experiences and knowledge held by a group of people inside an organization.
- What part of speech is institutional memory?
- Institutional memory is a noun.
- What is the plural of institutional memory?
- The plural of institutional memory is institutional memories.
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