Knowledge creation in the water sector: towards a learning water organization

Abstract

In this paper, some light is shed on approaches to the creation and re‐construction of water knowledge and the means to co‐create a water learning organization. In the water sector, one of the fundamental challenges in knowledge creation is that organizational information and knowledge do not match the external complexity. A model of knowledge creation is presented which shows how institutional knowledge can be created in water management. It is concluded that water knowledge is created through developing a process of transforming water tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge. The knowledge creation is realized through a process of socialization. A case study on private–public partnership in Amman City is presented.

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Correspondence address: Odeh Al‐Jayyousi, Applied Science University, College of Engineering, Amman 11931, Jordan. Email: [email protected]

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Odeh Al‐jayyousi

Correspondence address: Odeh Al‐Jayyousi, Applied Science University, College of Engineering, Amman 11931, Jordan. Email: [email protected]