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Abundance of Solutions: Some Thoughts for Theoretical and Practical Solution Seekers.
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Meindl, James R. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1982
The last article in a special issue on organizational research utilization, this paper discusses "solution environments" (the real or assumed distribution of good and bad solutions to problems), the models underlying the environments, the generation of these models, and solution environments' relationship to research utilization.…
Descriptors: Models, Problem Solving, Problems, Research Utilization
The Utilization Process: A Conceptual Framework and Synthesis of Empirical Findings.
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Beyer, Janice M.; Trice, Harrison M. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1982
Part of a special issue on organizational research utilization, this article reviews 27 empirical studies on the utilization of social science research. Its conceptual framework for utilization includes action generation, information processing, affective bonding, and strategy formulation and control. The authors identify 3 types of utilization…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Guidelines, Models, Organizational Change
Toward an Integration of Organization Research and Practice: A Contingency Study of Bureaucratic Control and Performance in Scientific Settings.
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Cheng, Joseph L. C.; McKinley, William – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1983
A study of 288 research units in 66 universities in Austria, Belgium, Finland, and Sweden found that bureaucratic control, through national science policy influence on research themes, affected organizational performance positively in physics and chemistry (where paradigms are highly developed), and negatively in biology and geology (with less…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Foreign Countries, Models, Organization Size (Groups)