Abstract
Strategic behaviors of organizations can be classified along two dimensions - growth orientations, or patterns of evolution over time, and action orientations, or strategic aggressiveness in undertaking a particular growth orientation. We create measures of growth and action orientations for small multihospital systems and test the validity of the growth and action orientation typologies, using data from a sample of small multihospital systems. Growth and action orientations do appear to exist independently of each other, and they are related to the ownership status of the systems. Not-for-profit and church-other systems exhibit similar strategic orientations, unlike those of Catholic and investor-owned systems.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 597-618 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Health services research |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| State | Published - 1988 |