Policy and Complex Systems
Table 1 . Agents and their attributes for the SLIDER case study
district performance , threat rigidity is likely to have occurred in Suburban School . Threat rigidity ( Staw , Sandelands , & Dutton , 1981 ) is an organizational behavior term that correlates external pressures on an organization with a reversion to tried and tested norms , generally at the expense of innovation .
For SLIDER , the acceptable zone for sustainability is calculated as the difference
between the highest ( best possible ) and the second highest attribute levels associated with a gap when measured on a 5-point Likert scale . The attributes associated with each of the three gaps are shown in Figure 2 and were measured using survey data or subject matter experts ( SMEs ) familiar with the intervention implementation .
Figure 2 . Acceptable zone modeled using PM , Cu , and Ca gaps .
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