NCJ Number
97749
Journal
Journal of Social Service Research Volume: 7 Issue: 4 Dated: (Summer 1984) Pages: 21-36
Date Published
1984
Length
16 pages
Annotation
Data from 36 well-established services and newly formed proactive agencies offering some services to adult rape victims are used to test our arguments that proactive organizations more than other service agencies use volunteers, make use of personal referrals to specific individuals in serving clients, educate the public, and secure more commitment of staff to the task or goals of the agency and less to the specific agency itself.
Abstract
We question life-cycle hypotheses that organizations drift away from such voluntaristic and personal practices as part of maturation. Organizational imprinting in a specific era, and the inadequate supply of resources to substitute for volunteer zeal, make any inexorable unfolding in a life cycle unlikely to hold for proactive organizations. (Author abstract)