title: Physicians and decisions: a simple rule for increasing connections in hospitals.
abstract: When hospitals are viewed as complex adaptive systems, simple rules can lead to behavior that emerges as complex and that enables creative, adaptive organizational responses. Based on empirical findings from a decade of research on hospital strategic decision making this article offers the simple rule of letting physicians help decide strategic issues. Seven managerial guidelines for implementing this rule are presented.
authors.affiliation: University of Texas at San Antonio, Division of Management & Marketing, USA.
authors.forename: D P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Ashmos
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Duchon
authors.forename: R R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: McDaniel
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006298:Health Services Administration / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007857:Leadership; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000523:psychology*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D011340:Problem Solving; D013598:Systems Theory; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000458:organization & administration