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Do Market-Level Hospital and Physician Resources Affect Small Area Variation in Hospital Use?
(Sage Publications, 1999)
This study evaluates the effect of market-level physician and hospital resources on hospital use. It is anticipated that higher hospital discharges are associated with (1) greater hospital and physician resources, (2) more ...
Making Sense of the Environment: The Role of Perceived Effectiveness
(Sage Publications, 1993)
This manuscript develops and explores two ideas: (1) that perceptions of environmental uncertainty are after-the-fact rationalizations used by decision makers to explain strong or weak effectiveness assessments, and (2) ...
Excavating the Paths of Meaning, Renewal, and Empowerment
(Sage Publications, 1995)
Although myths have been comprehensively examined at a cultural or macro level in organizational studies, they have received little attention at an individual level of analysis. This article uses Campbell's "hero's journey" ...
Empowering Middle Managers to be Transformational Leaders
(Sage Publications, 1996)
The article describes a field study of a large-scale management development program designed to stimulate middle managerial change. The development of a change typology suggests that middle managers are capable of making ...
It's Not Just Whether You Win Or Lose,It's also Where You Play the Game
(Sage Publications, 1997)
The positivity bias-the tendency to make internal attributions for others' successes and external attributions for others' failures-was examined in newspaper sports articles from the United States and Hong Kong. The ...