The role of corporate memory in the management of organizational innovation

In the modern socio-economic conditions of the Russian Corporation they should work on new principles, the main of which is the mandatory implementation of the innovation. For its effective implementation the necessary institutional and other conditions should be created. However, innovative activity of an organization depends on the maintenance and development of competencies, which, in turn, need corporate memory, as a certain information base. This article describes the nature and content of corporate memory, presents its peculiarities and differences from other related concepts. Its sources from the organizational knowledge are given separately. Also the research examines the role and tasks of the corporate memory in the process of innovation of modern organizations in the face of intensifying competition