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The Gerontologist, Vol 37, Issue 5 572-580, Copyright © 1997 by The Gerontological Society of America

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Top management team characteristics and innovation in nursing homes

NG Castle and J Banaszak-Holl
AtlaniCare Health Systems, Egg Harbor Township, NJ 08234, USA.

This study examines how the demographic characteristics of the top management team in 236 nursing homes can affect the adoption of innovations. The computerization of the Minimum Data Set (MDS) is the innovation we examine, and tenure, education, and involvement in a professional society are the demographic characteristics investigated. Controlling for 10 organizational and environmental factors, the results are generally significant for each of these demographic factors. However, the results for top managers of nonchain nursing homes show a greater association between these demographic factors and innovation than the results for top managers of nursing homes belonging to a chain. We discuss these results in terms of their significance for innovation research, nursing homes, and top management.


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