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healthcare organization theory  

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  • The scholarly field of organization studies and the empirical world of healthcare organizations have grown up together. Organizational concepts and propositions have been applied to and tested in healthcare settings; healthcare organizations, which exhibit somewhat distinctive features, have posed special problems for researchers, who have contributed to the development of organization theory. [Source: Encyclopedia of Health Services Research; Healthcare Organization Theory]

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