title: [Path dependencies as constraints on reorganisational processes in hospitals: using the example of coordination effects].
abstract: It is the objective of this theoretical study to examine whether archetypical hospital structures promote the creation of path dependencies. In the outcome, coordination effects lead potentially to the development of decentralised informal rules in hospital departments. The successful implementation of organisational target conditions, which are focused on increased work cooperation between individual hospital departments, is hereby called into question.
authors.affiliation: Medizinische Fakultät der Universität Duisburg-Essen.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Krantz
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: von Knoch
mesh_terms: D019091:Critical Pathways / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005858:Germany; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000379:methods*; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015274:Interdepartmental Relations; D017146:Models, Organizational