title: Achieving strategic consensus in the hospital setting: a middle management perspective.
abstract: This study adopts a social network methodology to explore the achievement of strategic consensus in a hospital system. On the basis of responses from 88 middle managers, the authors determined that a manager's (1) knowledge of the internal capabilities and the external environment of an organization and (2) his or her social position in a management structure significantly affect the realization of strategic consensus. Managerial knowledge is essential, and its importance in the consensus-building process is enhanced by a manager's social position.
mesh_terms: D032921:Consensus; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D006302:Health Services Research; D006608:Hierarchy, Social; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006740:Hospital Administrators / Q000145:classification; D006801:Humans; D015279:Organizational Culture; D014481:United States