Editing Organizational learning (section)

=== Corporate amnesia ===
In case no systematic approach has been applied when creating organizational memory systems, there is a risk of corporate amnesia. Environment of organizational amnesia leads to avoiding mistakes at all cost. Companies should create an environment where learning from mistakes is allowed in order to avoid them happening again.<ref name=DALKIR-K-2011>Dalkir, K. (2011) 'Knowledge Management in Theory and Practice', in Knowledge Management in Theory and Practice. 267.</ref>{{rp| 366, 372, 390}} Corporate amnesia is said to be a double-edged sword – it helps to move on by forgetting the wrongdoing, but at the same time it creates a danger of repeating the same error all over again.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Spicer |first=André |date=2015-10-09 |title=VW and the toxic problem of corporate amnesia |url=http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/oct/09/vw-bp-corporate-scandals-emissions-tests-oil-spill-horsemeat-rana-plaza |access-date=2022-12-06 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref>