Strategic power relationships in contemporary profit and nonprofit hospitals.
A comparative analysis of the intraorganizational power distributions of strategic decision makers in profit and nonprofit institutions was conducted to assess the effect of the institution's economic orientation. Hypotheses are tested, and the usefulness of an organization's economic orientation as a major strategic contingency variable is discussed.
D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003657:Decision Making; D006270:Health Facility Administrators; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006740:Hospital Administrators; D006777:Hospitals, Proprietary / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006788:Hospitals, Voluntary / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D011057:Politics; D014481:United States