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Personnel from the Texas Christian University (TCU) examined the organizational functioning of alcohol and drug abuse treatment centers across two states in the Gulf Coast with reference to strategic planning, in particular staff training needs and transfer of evidence-based practice into clinical settings...

Campbell interprets the process by which planned institutional innovation and change occurs to build a foundation for a planned institutional change theory . He notes that much literature on institutional change pays scant attention to the process, and he wants to fill this void. The issue is significant...

What impedes and fosters implementation success when evidence-based programs are applied in real world settings? This was the overarching question in a two-year study conducted by the Blueprints for Violence Prevention initiative, launched by the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV...

Citing a lack of research literature regarding Knowledge Management (KM) for individuals, this KM guru provides a comprehensive 53-page review of the literature and products involving Personal Knowledge Management (PKM). He also identifies the impacts of "disruptive technologies" regarding...

A systematic and far-reaching review of empirical literature and theory was conducted in the UK pertaining to the diffusion of innovation within the health-care service field and other service organizations. With these findings, the authors provide: an evidence-based conceptual model delineating the...

This is a seminal article that summarizes the research on the new and overdue discipline of implementation. The latter research and thus this document are slightly biased towards human service (versus business) experience in implementation. The authors undertake an expansive and thorough review that...

Citing the "common challenge" of replicating innovation, the authors ask the fundamental question of how social innovations can be successfully spread to reach greater populations. Following years of interviewing social entrepreneurs and social-sector leaders, Dees, Anderson and Wei-Skillern...