TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluating the impact of legal change on non-profit and for-profit organizations
T2 - The case of the Israeli long term care insurance law
AU - Schmid, Hillel
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - This article evaluates the impact of legal change on non-profit and for-profit organizations providing home care services mandated in the Israeli Long-Term Care Insurance Law, through the lens of neo-institutional and resource dependency theories. The findings of the study, which was conducted over a ten-year period, revealed that the distinctions between organizations in the two sectors are blurring due to coercive, mimetic, and normative isomorphism. Considerable dependence on government funding provided for in the law forces these organizations to adopt behavior that conforms to government policies and standards for service provision. Moreover, the growing tendency toward mimetic behavior and the increasing proportion of professional workers in both sectors causes for-profit and non-profit organizations to adopt similar bureaucratic behavior and organizational structures.
AB - This article evaluates the impact of legal change on non-profit and for-profit organizations providing home care services mandated in the Israeli Long-Term Care Insurance Law, through the lens of neo-institutional and resource dependency theories. The findings of the study, which was conducted over a ten-year period, revealed that the distinctions between organizations in the two sectors are blurring due to coercive, mimetic, and normative isomorphism. Considerable dependence on government funding provided for in the law forces these organizations to adopt behavior that conforms to government policies and standards for service provision. Moreover, the growing tendency toward mimetic behavior and the increasing proportion of professional workers in both sectors causes for-profit and non-profit organizations to adopt similar bureaucratic behavior and organizational structures.
KW - Home Care Services
KW - Isomorphism
KW - Neo-Institutional
KW - Resource-Dependency
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=3042518527&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14616670010029575
DO - 10.1080/14616670010029575
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AN - SCOPUS:3042518527
SN - 1471-9037
VL - 3
SP - 167
EP - 189
JO - Public Management Review
JF - Public Management Review
IS - 2
ER -