Title: Influence of Organizational Learning on Water Pollution Control in Colombia's Cauca Valley
Abstract: Abstract Colombia's Cauca Valley Corporation has a reputation for high-quality work in controlling water pollution. The corporation's regulatory programme, which includes both traditional regulation and a system of effluent charges, reflects both learning by doing and learning by exploration. The successful creation of the programme is explained in terms of the learning that led the corporation to emphasize cooperation with industry, to de-emphasize strict enforcement of regulations, and to experiment with effluent charges. Significantly, the charge scheme was effective because the effluent fees paid by firms were publicized in newspapers and the publicity influenced the reputations and decisions of company leaders. Acknowledgements The views, findings, interpretations and conclusions presented in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They should not be attributed the World Bank, its Executive Directors or the countries they represent. Fieldwork for this research was carried out between April 1995 and December 2000 when Ernesto Sánchez-Triana was affiliated as a professor with the Instituto de Estudios Ambientales of Universidad Nacional de Colomba.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-09-01
Language: en
Type: article
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