title: Joint hospital management by physicians and nursing administrators.
abstract: The effectiveness of physician involvement in hospital management may depend on how physicians actually interact with nurses and administrators in management committees and other forums. The study on which this article is based used the theory of cooperative and competitive goal interdependence to analyze problem solving between physicians and nursing administrators.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Business and Management, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tjosvold
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: MacPherson
mesh_terms: D001955:British Columbia; D003163:Competitive Behavior; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006040:Goals; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000523:psychology; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000523:psychology; D019555:Physician-Nurse Relations; D011340:Problem Solving; D012044:Regression Analysis