ix, 224 pages : 24 cm

This book looks at innovation and change as it applies to colleges and universities. The author's focus is on what happens after a change has been adopted. He first offers a theory about change in organizations, based on the personality of the organization. He then examines his theory of change in a study of fourteen structurally similar innovations in the experimental colleges at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He concludes with a review of other studies of universities as organizations in general, integrating his theory with other research on innovation in organizations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-217) and index

Pt. 1. Questions and answers about innovation. Innovation and Failure: Some Questions -- Organizations and Innovations: Some Answers -- Pt. 2. A study of fourteen innovations. The colleges: from creation to institutionalization -- The colleges: continuing institutionalization -- Pt. 3. Conclusions. How and why innovation fails -- Implications : a literature review

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