New challenges appear when we consider this phenomenon of organizational learning
at the global level. Organizational memory is historical; it is also delimited to the context of the time it occurred. Typically, it is local and regional, and more difficult to understand as global. But we can study the dissemination of communications from a central source of decision making, for example, as the communications spread to its distal locations. In fact, one communication can be sent instantaneously to all nodes of the global network.In contrast, we can track and study the emergence of ideas and initiatives at one location in a global network as they are adopted and spread to other locations. These are exciting applications of research methodology to the study of learning organizations in their global activities. Such a range of applications of research methodology focused on network communications is likely the productive means to witness and articulate the dynamics of open knowledge in global human organizations