Causal Paths in Elaboration of Organizational Structure: A Case of Hospital Services

AUTOR(ES)

Veney, James E.

RESUMO

Elaboration or change in hospital services is examined as a function of three classes of variables: contextual (characteristics of the environment), structural (characteristics of the hospital itself), and characteristics of the administrator. Possible causal paths in the flow of change forces are posited and examined by a recursive technique to determine the model that most nearly approximates reality. It is concluded that elaboration of structure within a hospital is primarily a function of the context and structure, but a smaller independent force is a function of the context and the administrator himself.

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