Document 0377
 DOCN  M9550377
 TI    Institutional environments and organizational responses to AIDS.
 DT    9505
 AU    Dill A; Department of Sociology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912.
 SO    J Health Soc Behav. 1994 Dec;35(4):349-69. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/95146739
 AB    Drawing from theory on institutionalized organizational environments,
       this paper analyzes the actions of community-based service programs
       providing care for people with AIDS. The focus is on the
       interorganizational relations developed by the lead agencies in
       demonstration projects attempting to coordinate services in three
       communities. The paper identifies differential styles of organizational
       response to developmental and operational issues. These differences are
       related to the conceptual distinction between organizational responses
       to technical environments and those to normative, or institutional,
       environmental features. Various factors are identified that appear to
       promote a higher degree of institutionalization in interorganizational
       relations. Coordination as a reform strategy is seen to have become, in
       itself, an institutionalized myth to which organizations must subscribe
       in order to gain legitimacy.
 DE    *Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome  Community Health
       Services/*ORGANIZATION & ADMIN  Comparative Study  Florida  Georgia
       Human  *Interinstitutional Relations  Pilot Projects  Program Evaluation
       Quality of Health Care/*ORGANIZATION & ADMIN  Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
       Texas  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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