Acquiring new technology : comparing nonprofit and public sector agencies
By: CORDER, Kevin
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ArticlePublisher: Thousand Oaks : SAGE, May 2001Administration & Society 33, 2, p. 194-219Abstract: Increasing competition for scarce resources and new demands for accountability create information management challenges for human service agencies. A survey of managers of human service agencies is used to identify obstacles to acquisiton of new information technology in both public and nonprofit agencies. Agencies with donors committed to new technology, managers with discretion to choose among technolotuy alternatives, and a workforce with few volunteers are likely to acquire technology. The results are consistent with theoretical approaches to the nonprofit sector that emphasize similarities between nonprofit and public agnecies. Both types of agencies are dependet on external sponsors
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Increasing competition for scarce resources and new demands for accountability create information management challenges for human service agencies. A survey of managers of human service agencies is used to identify obstacles to acquisiton of new information technology in both public and nonprofit agencies. Agencies with donors committed to new technology, managers with discretion to choose among technolotuy alternatives, and a workforce with few volunteers are likely to acquire technology. The results are consistent with theoretical approaches to the nonprofit sector that emphasize similarities between nonprofit and public agnecies. Both types of agencies are dependet on external sponsors
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