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This research analyzed how nuclear power plants implemented safety review innovations introduced by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission after the Three Mile Island accident. The findings suggested that nuclear power plants with relatively poor safety records tended to respond in a rule-bound manner that perpetuated their poor safety performance and that nc1ear power plants whose safety records were relatively strong tended to retain their autonomy. a response that reinforced their strong safety performance. Innovations are ideas, formulas, or programs that the individuals involved perceive as new (Beyer Trice, 1978; Hill Utterback, 1979; Rogers, 1982; Zaltman, Duncan, Holbeck, 1973). The stages in their development have been the subject of much scholarly discussion and debate (Rothwell Zegveld, 1985; Strebel, 1987). A common view is that implementation follows conception, proposal generation, and initiation, and that the factors that facilitate the former inhibit the latter (Duncan, 1976: 172; Wilson, 1963:
Alfred A. Marcus (Wed,) studied this question.