The quest to explore ancestral Berber management practices: Inventing sources and reimagining business history
研究了摩洛哥南部半干旱地区一个500年历史的灌溉系统，发现缺乏档案反而促使研究者发明视觉等新来源，并揭示了组织记忆的新类别，提出组织再记忆作为公共池塘资源理论的第九原则。
While archives are common in developed countries, it is generally recognised that they are lacking in developing countries. To cope with the challenges faced by a 500-year-old water irrigation system in a semi-arid region in the south of Morocco, we demonstrate that the absence of archives invites methodological exploration, making the invention of new sources, especially visuals, inevitable. They serve as mnemonic devices for keeping track of community water management infrastructures. Documenting actors’ reconstruction of organisational memory reveals new memory categories: communal, community-based, common, and historicised memory. Inspired by the eight principles of Ostrom’s theory on the commons, our case study also shows that the governance of commons cannot last beyond one generation without a process of organisational re-membering. Organisational re-membering, as the ninth principle of the commons theory, induces memory as well as a renewed community membership.