Matrix management in hospitals: testing theories of matrix structure and development [0.03%]
医院中的矩阵管理：测试矩阵结构与发展的理论
L R Burns
L R Burns
A study of 315 hospitals with matrix management programs was used to test several hypotheses concerning matrix management advanced by earlier theorists. The study verifies that matrix management involves several distinctive elements that ca...
Costs, commitment, and rewards: factors influencing the design and implementation of internal labor markets [0.03%]
成本、承诺与回报：影响内部劳动力市场设计和实施的因素分析
D B Bills
D B Bills
Much research on internal labor markets has been hampered by the failure to differentiate the wide variety of ILMs, by accounts of their determinants that too heavily emphasize isolated causal factors, by the lack of detailed material descr...
Comparative Study
Administrative science quarterly. 1987 Jun;32(2):202-21. DOI: 1987
Technology as an occasion for structuring: evidence from observations of CT scanners and the social order of radiology departments [0.03%]
技术作为构建社会秩序的契机——来自放射科CT扫描仪观察的证据
S R Barley
S R Barley
New medical imaging devices, such as the CT scanner, have begun to challenge traditional role relations among radiologists and radiological technologists. Under some conditions, these technologies may actually alter the organizational and o...
J E Kralewski,L Pitt,D Shatin
J E Kralewski
This study of 247 medical group practices explores the structural characteristics of these emerging organizational forms. As size and complexity of services increase, group practices tend to increase the number of hierarchical levels of aut...
A H Van de Ven,G Walker
A H Van de Ven
A theory was developed on the creation, growth, and decline of relationships among organizations and was tested, using a longitudinal study of 95 dyadic relationships among child care and health organizations in Texas. Using LISREL V, the t...
P C Nutt
P C Nutt
Seventy-eight case studies of decision making were profiled to identify the nature of the process. Analysis revealed evaluative, historical model, off-the-shelf, search, and nova process types. These processes differ in their approach to id...
C Perrow
C Perrow
Human factors engineering concerns the design of equipment in accordance with the mental and physical characteristics of operators. Human factors engineers advise design engineers, but the organizational context limits their influence and r...
A D Meyer
A D Meyer
This paper examines organizational adaptations to an environmental jolt--a sudden and unprecedented event (in this case, a doctors' strike)-- that created a natural experiment within a group of hospitals. Although adaptations were diverse a...
Input uncertainty and organizational coordination in hospital emergency units [0.03%]
急诊科医疗输入不确定性及其组织协调作用研究
L Argote
L Argote
The relationships among input uncertainty, means of coordination, and criteria of the organizational effectiveness of hospital emergency units were explored using data from 30 emergency units in six midwestern states. Input uncertainty gene...
Problems with contingency theory: testing assumptions hidden within the language of contingency "theory." [0.03%]
contingency理论的问题：检验隐藏在contingency“理论”语言中的假设
C B Schoonhoven
C B Schoonhoven
This paper suggests that there are five problems with contingency theory, ranging from a simple lack of clarity in its theoretical statements to more subtle issues such as the embedding of symmetrical and nonmonotonic assumptions in the the...