U.S. health-care organizations: Complexity, turbulence, and multilevel change

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 37, Issue , 2011, Pages 205-219

  Fennell, Mary L ^a   Adams, Crystal M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health services; Health care organizations; Organization theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960452273     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.012809.102612     Document Type: Review

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