The evolution of rural hospitals viewed through a population ecology framework.

Rural hospitals face formidable environmental challenges and have experienced closure rates higher than those of their urban counterparts. However, many of these rural hospitals appear to be surviving by developing interorganizational relationships that include network formation, absorption into investor-owned systems, and contract management arrangements. The concept of population ecology has been applied to organizational survival and can be used to examine health care organizations and specifically explain the evolution of rural hospitals.

Technology acceptance among physicians: a new take on TAM.

The proliferation of information technology has been a revolutionary force that has increased efficiency and effectiveness in many industries. However, health care organizations, particularly physician practices, are noticeably lagging in the adoption of such technologies. This article provides a systematic review of the literature on physician acceptance of information technology.

A resource-based view of partnership strategies in health care organizations.

The distribution of management structures in health care has been shifting from independent ownership to interorganizational relationships with other firms. A shortage of resources has been cited as one cause for such collaboration among health care entities. The resource- based view of the firm suggests that organizations differentiate between strategic alliances and acquisition strategies based on a firm's internal resources and the types of resources a potential partner organization possesses.