title: Non-profit multi-hospital organizations: challenges and prospects.
abstract: This study seeks to determine the relative importance of factors non-profit hospital administrators rely on in their decisions to join a non-profit multihospital organization (MO) and their assessments of an MO in satisfying these motives. A related objective of the study is to determine whether or not the administrators of different types of hospitals (i.e. general vs specialty, member of a national vs non-national MO and church-affiliated vs non-church affiliated) differ in their judgements. The analytical framework of the importance-performance technique is used in analyzing the data gathered from the top administrators of a nation-wide sample of hospitals in the USA. Results and implications of the study are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Management and Marketing, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA.
authors.forename: Natalia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Trogen
authors.forename: Ugur
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Yavas
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003625:Data Collection; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D006740:Hospital Administrators / Q000523:psychology*; D006788:Hospitals, Voluntary / Q000145:classification / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009042:Motivation; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009935:Organizational Affiliation; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D014481:United States