DE LA AMBIGÜEDAD A LA PRACTICIDAD COMO PROCESO ESTRATÉGICO: EL CASO DE LA ORGANIZACIÓN MUNDIAL DE LA SALUD.

The World Health Organization (WHO) formally seeks so ambiguous goals that make it difficult to design mechanisms to achieve them. A review of the regulations and the budget of the WHO leads to the following assumptions about the ambiguity that it faces: 1) finally, the WHO focus in pursuing more practical goals that can be addressed with the instruments it have; 2) the most practical goals are not defined by a single actor, they are the result of the interaction between the members of the Concrete Action System of the WHO, that are its bureaucratic apparatus, private companies and donor country representatives; 3) the WHO bureaucracy has a tendency to concentrate on more practical goals, such as combating communicable diseases, for which it have effective instruments; 4) for the national representatives it is preferable to concentrate on communicable diseases because they can take advantage of developments in vaccines in other countries or firms; and 5) private donor companies also prefer to concentrate efforts on communicable diseases so they can contribute giving what they already produce, such as vaccines. Deviating from ambiguous goals to concentrate on more practical issues is the result of strategic processes in which the actors face the ambiguity while pursuing their own interests, but also achieve, in part, the formal goals of the organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]