Internal complexity and environmental sensitivity in hospitals.
Theory suggests that organizations should respond to external complexity with internal complexity. We examine whether "environmentally sensitive" hospitals are more internally complex than "environmentally insensitive" hospitals. Results show that environmentally sensitive and insensitive hospitals differed on three of the measures of internal complexity: goal complexity, strategic complexity, and relational complexity.
Ashmos
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University of Texas at San Antonio, Division of Management and Marketing 78249, USA.
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McDaniel
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D016542:Chief Executive Officers, Hospital; D003625:Data Collection; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D019538:Health Care Surveys / Q000379:methods; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015274:Interdepartmental Relations; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D012931:Social Environment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013781:Texas