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Dissertation Information for Karen Feingold Ceppos

NAME:
- Karen Feingold Ceppos

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science

SCHOOL:
- University of California, Berkeley (USA) (1989)

ADVISORS:
- Nancy A. Van House

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Yale M. Braunstein
- Barry Martin Staw

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: Innovation and survival in library education

Abstract: The principal focus of this research concerns organizational and institutional influences on innovation and survival in Schools of Library and Information Science (SLISs). The study tests a model of the major variables affecting innovation and survival outcomes in SLISs. Based on the literature on organizational adaptation and survival, the model attempts to integrate elements of selection theory and resource dependence theory. Both environmental and managerial influences can be expected to affect the ability of the SLIS to adapt and survive in times of change. The relationship between innovation and survival is also examined. Additional theories from organizational behavior used in developing the model are: innovation, organizational culture, organizational demography, and organizational power and politics.

Independent variables included in the model are: diversity, dominant cohorts, governance, educational priority, resource support, leader power and structural power. The dependent variables are innovation and survival. The survey questionnaire is the primary method of data collection; analysis of published documents is a secondary method. The results are based on data obtained from 162 faculty members and 32 deans from 52 SLISs with accredited masters' degree programs.

Major findings are that the diversity of organizational members has the most significant effect on innovation and that SLISs exhibiting moderate levels of innovation are most likely to survive in changing environments. Private governance, high levels of resource support for the SLIS, faculty perceptions of deans' power and SLIS faculty perceptions of university faculty esteem for the SLIS are also significantly related to innovation.

MPACT Scores for Karen Feingold Ceppos

A = 0
C = 0
A+C = 0
T = 0
G = 0
W = 0
TD = 0
TA = 0
calculated 2008-05-21 11:08:53

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ADVISEES:
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COMMITTEESHIPS:
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