Systematic impact of the state on CEO tenure.
Using information from the literature on both for-profit industrial corporations and nonprofit community hospitals, a path model is constructed to show the effect of the state on CEO tenure at state-owned university hospitals. Results indicate that CEOs' lack of managerial influence and control over competition adversely affects their tenure at these institutions, even when the financial viability of the university hospital is not at stake.
D004465:Economic Competition; D006270:Health Facility Administrators; D006740:Hospital Administrators; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006783:Hospitals, State / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D010563:Personnel Turnover / Q000639:trends; D013219:State Government; D014481:United States