Open AccessThe Imperatives of Successful Policy Implementation: A Case Study of the Hollings National Institute of Standards and Technology-Manufacturing Extension Partnership (NIST-MEP) Program’s Implementation in Arkansas
Author(s) -
Russell M. Frazier
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of learning and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2164-4063
DOI - 10.5296/ijld.v2i4.2072
Subject(s) - general partnership , nist , exploratory research , congruence (geometry) , state policy , manufacturing sector , business , engineering management , process management , political science , public administration , sociology , engineering , policy analysis , economics , computer science , social science , psychology , finance , natural language processing , international economics , social psychology
The Arkansas Science and Technology Authority established the Arkansas Manufacturing Solutions program to serve as an effective diffusion of innovation delivery system, via interagency cooperation, for the small-to-medium sized manufacturing sector in Arkansas. The policy analysis considers the extent to which imperative elements exist to encourage interagency cooperation in the program environment.The Janet Weiss (1987) cooperation framework is applied as a single exploratory case study. The results indicate that multiple factors contributed to the participation of state agencies. Those factors include: (1) random external influences; (2) systematic external influences; (3) shared problems/goal congruence; (4) resources; and (5) capacity.