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The organizational context shapes the individual judgement, by means of the frames embodied in the organizational memory. The organizational memory results from a dynamic process, producing unique, multi-layered sets of frames that both delimit and enable action. The organizational memory could be represented as a fuzzy set, activated by individuals during the evaluation activities. The paper describes a methodological approach to elicit the strucuture of the OM from verbal discourses. The methods and the operators of the fuzzy set theory are widely used for this purpose.
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Cannavacciuolo, A., Capaldo, G., Ventre, A., Volpe, A., Zollo, G. (1997). Searching for the organizational memory using fuzzy modeling. In: Martin, T.P., Ralescu, A.L. (eds) Fuzzy Logic in Artificial Intelligence Towards Intelligent Systems. FLAI 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1188. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-62474-0_11
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