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This book is about the past as well as the future in organisations in general and about an organisation´s temporal contextualisation in particular. The author analyses, how organisations are able to construct a present with respect to their past and future. The study is based on an empirical case study, in which an R&D department has been followed for a six month-period in order to analyse how an organisation orients itself with respect to its past, present and future from the perspective of communication-centred social systems theory.

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Social memory studies.- The concept of the organisational memory function.- The contingency of possible pasts and futures at Entertain Corp.- Contributions to organisational memory studies.- Contributions to Social Systems Theory.

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Felix Langenmayr works as a consultant in the field of IT management and digitalisation of organisations. Next to this he is a researcher at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. His current research focuses mainly on temporality in organisations and the communicative constitution of organisations.

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