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D Duchon

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Physicians and decisions: a simple rule for increasing connections in hospitals.

When hospitals are viewed as complex adaptive systems, simple rules can lead to behavior that emerges as complex and that enables creative, adaptive organizational responses. Based on empirical findings from a decade of research on hospital strategic decision making this article offers the simple rule of letting physicians help decide strategic issues. Seven managerial guidelines for implementing this rule are presented.

Cooperative Behavior↗

Internal complexity and environmental sensitivity in hospitals.

Theory suggests that organizations should respond to external complexity with internal complexity. We examine whether "environmentally sensitive" hospitals are more internally complex than "environmentally insensitive" hospitals. Results show that environmentally sensitive and insensitive hospitals differed on three of the measures of internal complexity: goal complexity, strategic complexity, and relational complexity.

Chief Executive Officers, Hospital↗