Resource Dependence
The most critical elements that organizations need to function and survive
What is Resource
Institutional Theory posits that organizations often choose actions or responses that are not related to this
What is Organizational Efficiency/Productivity
Who are the two scholars first applied the concept of biology to organizations?
Hannan and Freeman
A strategy to manage resources by accumulating resources for the future
What is stockpiling
A phrase that explains symbolic image of healthcare organizations to help sick people become a rationalized image.
Population Ecology posits that organizations' efforts to adapt to its environment is limited due to 'this.'
What is structural inertia
A type of inter-organizational relationship that involving representatives of external groups into the decision-making or advisory structure of the organization
What is Co-Optation
A phenomena under Institutional Theory that organizations become similar to each other as they are exposed to same institutional environment
What is Isomorphism
Unit of Analysis of Population Ecology
Field level or higher
One of the three factors that influence organizations' behavior under RDT - Abundance of resources within the market
One of the institutional forces that occurs when organizational model themselves with other leading organizations
What is Mimetic Forces
Organizational forms are similar within the same field because environment select only certain types of organizations
Isomorphism
In Gupta article, hospitals did 'this' to reduce readmission rates by better coordinating patients' post acute care.
What is Vertical Integration with Nursing Facilities
In Marcia et al. paper, a strong coercive pressure from Italian government regarding organizational clinical restructuring led to 'this' behavior of hospitals.
What is Decoupling (adopted, but real implementation did not occur).
According to Population Ecology, rural hospitals try to do 'this' in order to find niche and adapt to environment