The Politics of the Exhibition: Viewing Corporate Museums Through the Paradigmatic Lens of Organizational Memory
研究企业博物馆作为组织记忆的场所，探讨组织如何通过展览策略性地选择记忆与遗忘，以塑造身份和形象，并提出四个命题指导未来研究。
This paper explores corporate museums as little–understood sites of organizational memory and proposes that corporate museums, as a form of organizational memory, are used strategically by organizations in the development of the firm’s identity and image. More critically, the authors examine the politics of the exhibition of organizational memory, or what Sturken refers to as ‘organized forgetting’ or ‘strategic forgetting’. The authors propose that organizations, through these museums, choose what is recalled (the politics of remembering) as well as what is not remembered (the politics of forgetting). Four propositions are suggested to guide future research on corporate museums with the purpose of furthering our understanding of these museums and their relationship to the development of organizational identity and image as well as organizational actions – past, present, and future. The paper concludes with implications for the organizational–studies scholar.