The relationship between intentional forgetting and organizational innovation

Zeng Junjian; Chen Chunhua; Li Jiefang; Liu Zhen

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Science Research Management ›› 2012 ›› Issue (8) : 128-136.

The relationship between intentional forgetting and organizational innovation

Zeng Junjian¹, Chen Chunhua¹, Li Jiefang², Liu Zhen¹

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The influence of organizational forgetting on organizational learning capability and organizational innovation is ignored based on many papers involving the relationship between organizational learning capability and organizational innovation. The relationship between intentional forgetting and organizational innovation and the mediation effect of organizational learning capability on them are placed on the centre. A conceptual model is built on the basis of papers review. By means of the effective survey data collected from 219 companies in the area of Pearl River Delta, the empirical study on the relation among intentional forgetting, organizational learning capability, and organizational innovation is conducted. The result indicates that intentional forgetting has both direct and indirect effects on organizational innovation and organizational learning capability plays a mediative role between them. The result provides a new path for improving organizational learning capability and organizational innovation level. Intentional forgetting which includes unlearning and avoidance of bad habit is able to directly facilitate organizational learning capability, and it could indirectly contribute to organizational innovation level by the mediation effect of organizational learning.

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intentional forgetting / organizational learning capability / organizational innovation

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Zeng Junjian, Chen Chunhua, Li Jiefang, Liu Zhen. The relationship between intentional forgetting and organizational innovation[J]. Science Research Management. 2012(8): 128-136

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