Successful implementation of innovations is central to social service organizations’ effectiveness and improvement of services to clients. Yet administrators face a host of challenges and implementation failures are common. This paper discusses the nature of the innovation implementation as inherently dynamic, endogenous to the organization, and constrained by conditions of bounded rationality. Several system dynamics models of innovation implementation are reviewed from manufacturing, health, and human services in terms of their appropriateness and evidence base for social services. Recommendations for practice and a research agenda offered.

This is the whole item.

Date created

• 2006 July 23-2006 July 27

Type

• Document

Processing Activity

• Processing documentation available at: https://wiki.albany.edu/display/SCA/Processing+Ingested+Digital+Files

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International

  
  Contact Us for questions or additional rights.

ITEM CONTEXT

Part of

32937c7b43e3e015509bb71fd40d2054

Scope and Contents

Part of

23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8

Scope and Contents

Part of

f9377a3ac7b50b1fca5e04fb6d679ec2

Scope and Contents

Collection

System Dynamic Society Records

Scope and Contents

Collecting area

• This collection is part of the University Archives