Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Organizational theory and the orientation of not-for-profit and for-profit hospitals; Chapter 3: Indices of hospital performanceChapter 4: Hospitals' organizational characteristics and environments;Chapter 5: Methods; Chapter 6: Results and conclusions; Appendix A: Creation of hospital technology variable; Appendix B: 25 hospital markets with the highest market concentration; Appendix C: OLS regression results of efficiency and community service outcomes; References; Index.