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This book focuses upon the problems and solutions encountered by
two primary sets of people involved in the transfer of technical
knowledge: foreign consultants and host country counterparts. It
presents an approach to many of the cross-cultural theories common
to the transfer of knowledge. .
Even though concern about and interest in technology transfer have
existed since the 1950s, it has become of increasing importance to
lesser-developed and developing countries since the 1970s. The
transfer of technology in general, and in particular the transfer
of technical knowledge, lies at the heart of the North-South
debate. There is an abundance of literature on technology transfer
in almost every field of interest--policy, practice, applied case
studies, and general recommendations--but little, if any, of the
information is integrated. It remains widely distributed throughout
the fields of economics, business, rural sociology, and
anthropology. The same may be said for various studies of
consultants as change agents. On the other hand, studies of
counterparts--host country professionals--have been almost entirely
neglected, with the exception of their implied roles as innovators
or acceptors. There have been few attempts to tie practice to
theory, theory to research, or research to practice. This volume
attempts to provide the link between theory, research, and
practice. Based upon research conducted at two large-scale water
resource development projects in Indonesia, it focuses upon the
problems and solutions encountered by two primary sets of people
involved in the transfer of technical knowledge--foreign
consultants and host country counterparts. Dr. Scott-Stevens
presents a unified and applied approach to many of the
cross-cultural theories, issues, and problems common to the
transfer of technical knowledge across cultures.
Five hundred years before Columbus, the American Southwest was the
homeland of the Anasazi civilization. Chaco Canyon was its heart.
The reasons for the Anasazi's disappearance have long been a
mystery. As told by the Rain Woman Bent Sparrow, the beginning of
the end starts the day Panpele, flute player and wizard, arrives in
the Canyon. Panpele rekindles his feud with his life-long enemy,
Olin the Sun Watcher, Bent Sparrow's uncle. Using Bent Sparrow as
his tool of revenge, Panpele casts illusions of love and honor that
ultimately result in the collapse of an entire way of life.
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