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This book is the first in a new series designed to facilitate an emergent dialogue around the issues of global change and cooperative potential. Written by an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars, it explores how organizational scholarship and thinking can lead to a greater understanding of global issues. Topics discussed include: global women leaders; corporations as agents of global change; international networking; the development of global environmental regimes and collaborative knowledge creation.
Global Change as Contextual Collaborative Knowledge Creation
Global Change as Contextual Collaborative Knowledge Creation
Until very recently in history, people have responded to global change phenomena as if they were local and linear; as if they did not require any transboundary learning, organizing, or action (Cooperrider & Bilimoria, 1993).
A good illustration of this line of thought is reflected in the domain of international technology transfer studies, a discipline that has concerned itself with issues of global change over the past 30 years by seeking to transfer knowledge and innovations both technical and social from developed to developing countries. Examples include studies of diffusion of agricultural innovations (Howes, 1980; Rogers, 1983); birth control methods (Jacobson, 1988); disease control and eradication programs, such as smallpox (Fenner, ...
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