Building bridges between local and global knowledge: new ways of working at the World Health Organisation

Auteurs-es

  • Michael Barrett
  • Bob Fryatt
  • Geoff Walsham
  • Somya Joshi

Mots-clés :

knowledge management, development, organisations, World Health Organisation

Résumé

This paper examines knowledge strategies of global organisations and considers the implications for new ways of working at the World Health Organisation (WHO). We analyse WHO knowledge strategies along four dimensions: utilising local knowledge, building knowledge capacities, local-global knowledge sharing and the transition to knowledge-based organisational forms, and conclude with some implications as to how the WHO might build bridges between local and global knowledge.

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Publié-e

2005-09-20

Numéro

Vol. 1 No. 2 (2005): Approaches to promote knowledge sharing in international development organisations

Rubrique

Papers

Licence

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