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This article challenges some perceptions arising from the long-standing debate concerning the sharing of turf by organizations. It shows that the structure of an organization as well as its need to complete tasks affects the likelihood of it sharing turf. It also shows that organizations are motivated by more than the desire to expand budgets, power, or autonomy. Finally, organizations may make choices that help them complete a task in the short run, but in the long run undermine their ability to survive. These points are illustrated through a case study involving the Air National Guard and the Air Force.

Cooperation between organizations creates a dilemma—should an organization cooperate risking exploitation or should an organization refuse to cooperate and perhaps keep itself from successfully performing a task? The answer to this dilemma is trust. If an organization can trust another then it need not fear cooperating with it. How does trust develop? This question is answered using a comparison of the air force and army with their respective National Guards. It is shown that air force procedures facilitated the development of trust while army procedures hindered it. Air force policies also incrementally increased the number of interactions between it and the guard allowing trust to develop. Army policies did not.

Preface: consider the precedent -- A mother's story / Connie -- Introduction -- Part I: the principle -- The baby scoop era -- A helping hand -- The "experts" -- Illegal motherhood -- Part II: the scooping -- A mother's story / Nancy Ann -- The God players -- The industry -- In whose "best interests"? -- The ritual hand-off -- Adopter assessments -- Boys will be boys -- The gold standard: ivory snow -- Punitive attitudes & Coercion -- Like lambs to the slaughter -- Aid to families with dependent children -- Revolving doors & conveyor belts -- Mother of mother -- Unequal protection -- Collusionists -- Strangers & Statistics -- Decimating the dyad -- What adopters knew & when -- A mother's story / Priscilla -- Part III: penance paid -- A failed social experiment -- Sticks & stones -- What should have been -- PTSD in mothers of the baby scoop era -- Admissions & Apologies -- Eugenics, social engineering & child trafficking -- A mother's story / Carla -- In closing -- Appendices -- Terminology: the name game -- Legal protections and other definitions -- Child welfare league adoption practice standards -- Children's bureau -- Thought reform & other issues -- Codes, declarations & laws governing human experimentation