Effective organizational control: Implications for academic medicine

Academic Medicine

Volumn 80, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1054-1063

  Wilkes, Michael S ^a   Srinivasan, Malathi ^a   Flamholtz, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVALUATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; LEADERSHIP; MOTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 27644479504     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200511000-00014     Document Type: Review

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