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100	1		_aCHING Horng _92183
245	1	0	_aTQM adoption by hospitals in Taiwan
260			_aOxfordshire : _bRoutledge, _cJuly 2002
520	3		_aThis study collected survey data from 76 hospitals in Taiwan to test a multilevel model addressing the issue of TQM adoption as one type of organizational adaptation. We focused on the extent of tQM adoption by the individual hospitals as the dependent variable. As for the independent variables, we selected five multilevel constructs: the scope of the network cooperation, th nature of the network relatinship, organizational identity, adaptation strategy and organizatinal citizanship bahaviour. Results from regression analyses indicate that both the nature of the network relationship and prospector strategy are positively and significantly related to the extent of TQM adoption. However, subsample analyses show that while only the prospector strategy is related to TQM adoption for for-profit hospitals, only the nature of the network relatioship is related to TQM adoption for non-profit hospitals. The overall results seem to suggest that larger hospitals and non-profit hospitals are in a better position to utilize the network relationship than the smaller hospitals and for-profit hospitals. As a result, these smaller hospitals and for-profit hospitals have to rely more on their own prospector strategy to facilitate the implementation of TQM to cope with the uncertainties ushered in by the National Health Insurance programme. It is hoped that our cross-field research will help the study of TQM in new directions
700	1		_aFENGHUEIH Huarng _917854
773	0	8	_tTotal Quality Management _g13, 4, p. 441-463 _dOxfordshire : Routledge, July 2002 _xISSN 09544127 _w
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999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c8687 _d8687
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