Academic women's studies programs, considered as a structural and knowledge-based organizational innovation, provide a case with which to examine regional differences in adoption patterns. Striking differences are observed among regions in the timing, pace and saturation of
adoption of this innovation by academic institutions Organizational vanables are not related
to these regional diffusion patterns, but a tentative test of a "regional political milieu" hypothesis
suggests that system effects - or diffuse, region-specific environmental factors — may be important in the degree to which organizations within a region may be innovative
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