CONVERTING TO FOR-PROFIT STATUS: CORPORATE RESPONSIVENESS TO RADICAL CHANGE.
Academy of Management JournalPublished 1 September 1990
Ari Ginsberg, Ann K. Buchholtz
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This study examined organizational adaptation to a radical environmental shift—a dramatic change in federal policies toward health maintenance organizations (HMOs) that removed key advantages of no...
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