The purpose of this special section is to highlight the challenges organizations face with the reality of the intergenerational diversity. These challenges affect critically all the aspects of learning and corporate memory in organizations. Design/methodology/approach: A conceptual approach is adopted to examine the existing literature concerning the intergenerational diversity and its implications on learning and organizational memory for organizations. Findings: An analysis of intergenerational memory is proposed to open a discussion about the managerial and organizational consequences of the integration of diverse generations. With this important change, several questions are addressed about the brain drain risk, knowledge transfer from a generation to another, as well as knowledge creation, knowledge storage and capitalization. Originality/value: A selection of four articles is proposed to illustrate then this broad thematic.