[Path dependencies as constraints on reorganisational processes in hospitals: using the example of coordination effects]. / Pfadabhängigkeiten als Hemmnisse von Reorganisationsprozessen in Krankenhäusern: Am Beispiel von Koordinationseffekten.

ABSTRACT

It is the objective of this theoretical study to examine whether archetypical hospital structures promote the creation of path dependencies. In the outcome, coordination effects lead potentially to the development of decentralised informal rules in hospital departments. The successful implementation of organisational target conditions, which are focused on increased work cooperation between individual hospital departments, is hereby called into question.