This dissertation examines how firms strategically respond to failures and the role of stakeholders in these responses. I propose that learning from stakeholder cues results in substantive behavioral changes which not only exceed stakeholders' immediate expectations but also enable firms to avoid failures. Such failure-learning is contingent on…

California maintains two sets of secure juvenile facilities: a state-run youth correctional system, the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), and 112 juvenile halls, camps, and ranches operated by county probation departments. Despite sustained declines in serious juvenile arrests and a reduction in commitments to the state, DJJ has not closed a…

During the 1960s and 70s the United States environmental movement experienced dramatic growth in both absolute size and in the diversity of organizational structures and issues represented within the movement. We assess the importance of change in movement size and compositional diversity on two important stages within the legislative process.…

Reviews current organizational decline perspectives. Presents a conceptual framework that redefines organizational decline and outlines a decline model with five stages: blindness to change, inaction, faulty action, crisis, and dissolution. The model aims to improve understanding of basic threats to organizational survival. Includes 54 references.…

Results of a survey on organizational characteristics and issues are presented. The report updates a survey conducted in 1978, and where appropriate compares findings with those of the earlier survey. Ten state associations and seven regional associations responded to a questionnaire soliciting information regarding: organizational size;…

A review of Intervention Theory and Method: A Behavioral Science View" (Addison-Wesley), by Chris Argyris. This book represents the beginning of a new phase and new stage in the theory and practice of organizational psychology. (Author/RY)

Consideration by the NCTE President of the effects of social change and membership growth upon the Council. (RD)

Consideration by the NCTE President of the effects of social change and membership growth upon the Council. (RD)

Reports on the possibility of restructuring physics and chemistry departments and merging others at British universities. Suggests modifications of the course content for greater acceptance by students. Concludes that the logic of the committee's recommendations rests in the subsequent ability of certain departments to grow. (RT)

Discusses why expanding to compete with public institutions makes no economic sense for small private colleges and may lower their rankings in the national collegiate pecking order. (EV)

Available from: Comparative Administration Research Institute, Kent State University Press, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242. (IRT)

Training needed to implement technological and organizational change in small- and medium-sized enterprises is restrained by lack of systematic organization, negative effects of organizational and personnel structures, and different interpretations of managerial tasks. Article suggests that managers should strive to create the necessary…

This organization has been shown to double in size every ten years. While it is doubtful that such a pace can be maintained, 100,000 members are estimated for 1990. Unless handled with great care, problems faced today could determine whether this organization can adequately represent all of psychology. (AM)

Argues that research on diffusion of innovation should shift from individuals to organizational structure and environmental factors. (Author)

Outlines requirements for affiliation of local, state, and regional social studies councils with the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS). Presents also a history of social studies organizational affiliation since 1940. (DB)