title: Retrenchment in health care organizations: theory and practice.
abstract: This paper analyzes retrenchment in health care organizations in terms of prescriptions in the literature and the actual responses of health care executives to retrenchment. Case studies of five organizations indicate that the range of coping strategies is much more limited than the range of possibilities suggested in the literature. Constraints within the culture of the organization are suggested as an explanation for this disparity.
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets / Q000639:trends*; D003363:Cost Control; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005376:Financial Management / Q000639:trends*; D006270:Health Facility Administrators; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010934:Planning Techniques; D012922:Social Change; D014481:United States