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100 1 _aBARR, Donald A.
_928224
245 1 0 _aStrategic management or environmental change :
_bwhich determines success in health care organizations?
260 _aThousand Oaks :
_bSAGE,
_cSeptember 1998
520 3 _aIt is often difficult in complex organizational systems for managers to attribute accurately changes in organizational performance to changes in management strategy. In this case study of the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Health Care System, managers attributed improvement in patient enrollment to strategic action taken earlier to improve patient satisfaction. Empirical data demonstrate that changes in patient enrollment were actually due to changes in the market for medical care external to Kaiser and out of the control of Kaiser managers. Subsequent problems in the Kaiser system may have been worsened by this earlier misattribution. It is important for health care managers to appreciate the difficulty in linking strategic action to changes in organizational performance
773 0 8 _tAdministration & Society
_g30, 4, p. 374-392
_dThousand Oaks : SAGE, September 1998
_xISSN 00953997
_w
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_cNatália
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_cCarolina
999 _aConvertido do Formato PHL
_bPHL2MARC21 1.1
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