This study analyzed state-level university-based efforts to increase manufacturing productivity through the transfer of technologies, such as robotics and microcomputers, to manufacturing establishments. A survey was conducted by phone interview of 15 state programs that were operating in 1985....

The utilization of program evaluation methodology in human service agencies was reviewed from the perspective of organizational contingency theory. Adoption of program evaluation was seen as an innovation which would arouse uncertainty in an organization. A 2 x 2 factorial experiment, with a...