Transactive Memory Systems: Current Issues and Future Research Directions

Kyle Lewis () and Benjamin Herndon ()
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Kyle Lewis: McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712
Benjamin Herndon: College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30308

Organization Science, 2011, vol. 22, issue 5, 1254-1265

Abstract: Transactive memory system (TMS) theory has been popularized in recent research on groups and other collectives. In this essay we outline current issues in TMS research and develop propositions that can be tested in future research. We describe issues concerning how researchers define and conceptualize TMSs, interpret the relationship between TMS measures and the TMS concept, and attend to the role of task type in TMS research. The potential to advance TMS research by incorporating multilevel and social network perspectives, reconsidering the role of information technology in supporting TMSs, and developing frameworks suited to complex, multiactivity tasks is considered.

Keywords: transactive memory; group cognition; tasks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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