Hospital capital budgeting: fusion of rationality, politics and ceremony.
Budgetary requests for medical capital equipment give rise to streams of rational, political and ceremonial decision making. As they cascade through hospitals, these processes influence the deployment of organizational assets and the viability of organizational cultures.
D002017:Budgets; D002562:Ceremonial Behavior; D003363:Cost Control; D003657:Decision Making; D005376:Financial Management / Q000379:methods*; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007449:Investments; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011057:Politics; D014481:United States