A Study of Strategic Alliance and Network Structure in the Health Care Industry in Taiwan

We focused on the extent of TQM adoption by the individual hospitals as the dependent variable. We also controlled for the possible confounding effect of the age of the hospital, the number of doctors in the hospital, whether the hospital is a religious hospital, and the accreditation class of the hospital.

As for the independent variables, we selected five multilevel constructs: the scope of the network cooperation, the nature of the network relationship, organizational identity, adaptation strategy and organizational citizenship behavior. Results from regression analyses indicate that the nature of the network relationship is positively and significantly related to the extent of the TQM adoption.