Guest editorial: Opportunities and interdisciplinary perspectives for organizational unlearning

This special issue is the first attempt to collect, present, and discuss interdisciplinary perspectives on organizational unlearning. Our idea is based on two central observations. On the one hand, being involved in unlearning research, we, as guest editors, observed that the term has been attracting strong interest in research and practice. However, the field of unlearning has also been confronted with various conceptual issues and empirical challenges. On the other hand, we recognized that the term “unlearning” proves relevant in many different disciplines other than management and organization studies. These other fields of research have not yet intersected with the discourse in the organizational unlearning community. In fact, over the past years, we have talked to philosophers, psychotherapists, historians, and psychologists – who all had different views on unlearning. We agreed that dedicating space for such interdisciplinary perspectives and presenting them to scholars in management and organization studies could be a highly fruitful endeavor.

Til publikasjon: https://doi.org/10.1108/TLO-07-2019-236, https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5141165, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336603769_Guest_editorial_Opportunities_and_interdisciplinary_perspectives_for_organizational_unlearning | Publiseringsår: 2019 | Tidsskrift: Learning Organization