title: Are rural hospitals "strategic"?
abstract: This article focuses on strategic management of rural hospitals from an evolutionary perspective, using logistic regression models to examine the environmental/organizational pressures that induced rural hospitals to be more active in strategic changes (high changers versus low changers) in two 5-year consecutive intervals between 1983 and 1993. Findings suggest that these pressures had inconsistent effects and high changers were more sensitive to organizational pressures than environmental pressures.
authors.affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.
authors.forename: H Q
authors.initials: HQ
authors.lastname: Trinh
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D004465:Economic Competition; D019981:Health Care Sector; D006302:Health Services Research; D006769:Hospitals, General / Q000458:organization & administration; D006780:Hospitals, Rural / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D015279:Organizational Culture; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010934:Planning Techniques; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms; D014481:United States