Why Don't They Do What We Want? An Exploration of Organizational Responses to Institutional Pressures in Community Health Centers
- 1 March 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Public Administration Review
- Vol. 55 (2), 183-192
- https://doi.org/10.2307/977184
Abstract
Through the use of four comparative case studies, Barbara Bigelow and Melissa Middleton explore the range of factors that influence how community health centers...This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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