I. Empirical-Rational Strategies for Change
This is supported mainly through state and federal grants or through companies that are willing to fund the production of knowledge for profit potential.
This is know broadly as KPU (Knowledge, Production, Utilization).
Models include R & D, RDD, and RDDA. See figure 9-1, p. 295.
Under the Adoption process, organizations: perform a trial, install the program, the institutionalize it.