Purpose

A serious global public health emergency (GPHE) like the COVID-19 aggravates the inequilibrium of medical care and other critical resources between wealthy and poor nations, which, coupled with the collision of cultures, indicates the vital need for developing humanitarian knowledge transcending cultures. Given the scarcity of literature addressing such unprecedent issues, this paper thus proposes new, unconventional viewpoints and future themes at the intersection of knowledge management (KM) and humanitarian inquiry.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper is conceptual in nature. The data of the World Bank and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs are analysed to introduce some emerging real impact topics regarding cross-cultural conflicts and humanitarian knowledge in the post-COVID business world. The theoretical foundation was built upon a critical literature review.

Findings

This paper synthesizes the perspectives of culture, KM and the humanistic philosophy to distil the core component of cultural intelligence and comparatively and thereby illuminating why cross-cultural metacognition acts as a priori for achieving cosmopolitan humanitarian knowledge.

Research limitations/implications

This paper provides profound implications to academics by highlighting the importance to formulating new, inter-disciplinary themes or unorthodox, phenomenon-driven assumptions beyond the traditional KM domain. This paper also offers practitioners and policymakers valuable insights into coping with the growing disparity between high- and low-income countries by showing warning signs of a looming humanitarian crisis associated with a GPHE context.

Originality/value

This paper does not aim to claim the birth of a new domain but call for more research on developing a normative theory of humanitarian knowledge as transcendence of cultures. It implies uncharted territories of great interest and potential for the real impact KM community.

中文翻译：

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作为人道主义知识先验的跨文化元认知：当文化在全球突发卫生事件中发生冲突时

目的

像 COVID-19 这样严重的全球公共卫生紧急事件 (GPHE) 加剧了富国和穷国之间医疗保健和其他关键资源的不平衡，再加上文化的碰撞，这表明发展超越文化的人道主义知识的迫切需要。鉴于解决此类史无前例的问题的文献很少，因此本文在知识管理 (KM) 和人道主义调查的交叉点上提出了新的、非常规的观点和未来主题。

设计/方法/方法

这篇论文是概念性的。对世界银行和人道主义事务协调厅的数据进行了分析，以介绍一些有关跨文化冲突和后 COVID 商业世界中的人道主义知识的新出现的实际影响主题。理论基础建立在批判性文献综述之上。

发现

本文综合文化、知识管理和人文哲学的视角，提炼出文化智能的核心成分，并进行比较，从而阐明为什么跨文化元认知是实现世界人道主义知识的先验。

研究限制/影响

本文强调了在传统知识管理领域之外制定新的、跨学科的主题或非正统的、由现象驱动的假设的重要性，从而对学术界产生了深远的影响。本文还通过显示与 GPHE 背景相关的迫在眉睫的人道主义危机的警告信号，为实践者和决策者提供了宝贵的见解，以应对高收入和低收入国家之间日益扩大的差距。

原创性/价值

本文的目的不是宣称一个新领域的诞生，而是呼吁进行更多的研究，以发展一种超越文化的人道主义知识规范理论。它意味着对真正影响知识管理社区具有极大兴趣和潜力的未知领域。