Tracking the merger: The human experience

Health Services Management Research

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 211-222

  Shaw, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOARD OF TRUSTEES; COST CONTROL; CULTURAL FACTOR; EXPERIENCE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LITERATURE; MANAGER; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PERCEPTION; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; TEACHING HOSPITAL; WORK;

DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH FACILITY MERGER; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION, HOSPITAL; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0036844124     PISSN: 09514848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/095148402320589019     Document Type: Article

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