SCHMID, Hillel
Nonprofit organizations and for-profit organizations privinding home care services for the israeli frail elderly : a comparative analysis - New York : Marcel Dekker, 2001
The article presents a longitudinal study on the behavior and functioning of voluntry nonprifit organizations (VNPOs) and for-profit organizations (FPOs) providing home care services to frail elderly persons in Israel according to the Long Term Care Isurance law, which was implemented as of 1988. The study examined differences and similarities in the strategic, structural, adminitrative and human behavior of VNPOs and FPOs over a 10-year-period. The main findings point to blurring distinctions between organizations in both sectors, which can be attributed to their high dependence on governmental resouces, adoption of similar service technologies, and transmission of professional norms. In light of the above, the article seeks to shift the focus of research from the questions who provides to how services are provided and what structural and organizatinal properties may contribute toward improving service effectiveness
Nonprofit organizations and for-profit organizations privinding home care services for the israeli frail elderly : a comparative analysis - New York : Marcel Dekker, 2001
The article presents a longitudinal study on the behavior and functioning of voluntry nonprifit organizations (VNPOs) and for-profit organizations (FPOs) providing home care services to frail elderly persons in Israel according to the Long Term Care Isurance law, which was implemented as of 1988. The study examined differences and similarities in the strategic, structural, adminitrative and human behavior of VNPOs and FPOs over a 10-year-period. The main findings point to blurring distinctions between organizations in both sectors, which can be attributed to their high dependence on governmental resouces, adoption of similar service technologies, and transmission of professional norms. In light of the above, the article seeks to shift the focus of research from the questions who provides to how services are provided and what structural and organizatinal properties may contribute toward improving service effectiveness
