Non-profit multi-hospital organizations: challenges and prospects.

Full 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.

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Author information

Author/s: Trogen, Natalia (N); Yavas, Ugur (U);

Affiliation: Department of Management and Marketing, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Journal of management in medicine (J Manag Med), published in England. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-; vol 16 (issue 6) : pp 451-62

Dates: Created 2003/01/21; Completed 2003/02/11; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 12534167, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Cooperative Behavior
Data Collection
Decision Making, Organizational
Hospital Administrators - psychology
Hospitals, Voluntary - classification; organization & administration
Humans
Judgment

Models, Organizational
Motivation
Multi-Institutional Systems - organization & administration
Organizational Affiliation
Organizational Objectives
Task Performance and Analysis
United States

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