Resumen de Why Culture Matters in International Institutions: The Marginality of Human Rights at the World Bank

Galit A. Sarfaty

• Despite internal and external pressure, the World Bank has not adopted ahuman rights policy or agenda. On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork at the Bank, this article analyzes its organizational culture and finds that such bureaucratic obstacles as the internal incentive system and a clash of expertise among the staff, especially differences between lawyers and economists on defining human rights and justifying their relevance to the Bank's mission, have impeded the internalization of human rights norms.