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Download full textJolly, James A.; Creighton, J. W. – 1974
This study is based on a comparison of data from two independent studies of technology utilization and dissemination methodology that sought to identify the behavior characteristics of "linkers" and "stabilizers" and their relative existence within different groups of technical personnel. Hypothesis for this study is that the…
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Diffusion, Information Dissemination, Literature Reviews
Creighton, J. W.; And Others – 1972
This study investigated the hypothesis that there is a relationship between the output efficiency of research and development and the behavioral characteristics of individuals in the user organization. Through a review of the literature, a number of concepts and models that tend to support the hypothesis are discussed. The authors then present a…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Conceptual Schemes, Diffusion, Information Dissemination
Peer reviewedCheng, 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)
Jolly, James A.; Creighton, J. W. – 1975
This paper describes and evaluates the effectiveness of a program designed to improve technology transfer and utilization that was implemented in 1971 by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command. The authors first describe the organization of the technology transfer program and then attempt to evaluate its effectiveness over the three-year period…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Diffusion, Experimental Programs, Information Dissemination
Kent, Allen; And Others – 1979
The findings of a study undertaken at the University of Pittsburgh in 1975 to determine the extent of materials use and the full cost of such use in the university library system are presented in this 272-page report. Intended to serve as a foundation for improved acquisitions policies, this report covers circulation and in-house use of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Books, Information Utilization, Library Acquisition
Peer reviewedElsner, Gary H. – Journal of Leisure Research, 1971
Descriptors: Economics, Facility Utilization Research, Models, Multiple Regression Analysis
PDF pending restorationMidwest Research Inst., Kansas City, MO. – 1974
The objectives of this study were to assist the Kansas City School District in the formulation of policy on the consolidation and closing of schools, development of objective criteria to aid decision-making on these issues, and specification of procedures for the implementing of such policy and policy decisions. The decision model developed had…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Consolidated Schools, Decision Making, Educational Finance
