Top manager and network effects on the adoption of innovative management practices: a study of TQM in a public hospital system

This paper reports findings from a study that combined two theoretical perspectives-top manager and network/institutional-to examine the factors influencing organizations to adopt innovative management practices. The study setting was a system of public hospitals and the innovation was Total Quality...

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Published in:Strategic management journal 2001-10, Vol.22 (10), p.935-951
Main Authors: Young, Gary J., Charns, Martin P., Shortell, Stephen M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
adoption
Applied sciences
Business innovation
Demography
diffusion
Directors
Early adopters
Employees
Empowerment
Exact sciences and technology
Firm modelling
Health care
Hospital administration
Hospitals
Innovation
Innovation adoption
Innovation diffusion
Innovations
institutional forces
Institutionalism
Management styles
Management techniques
Managers
Medical referrals
Networks
Operational research and scientific management
Operational research. Management science
Public management
Public sector
Quality control
Quality improvement
Quality management
Reliability theory. Replacement problems
Strategic management
Studies
top manager
Total quality
Total quality management
Veterans
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Summary:This paper reports findings from a study that combined two theoretical perspectives-top manager and network/institutional-to examine the factors influencing organizations to adopt innovative management practices. The study setting was a system of public hospitals and the innovation was Total Quality Management (TQM). Study results indicate that both top manager and network/institutional factors are important determinants of whether and when organizations adopt innovations. However, as predicted, the relative importance of these two sets of factors appears to change as an innovation becomes more widely diffused.
ISSN:0143-2095
1097-0266
DOI:10.1002/smj.194