Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- PART I Introduction -- 1 Business organisations -- Meaning of business organisation -- Types of business organisations -- Types of private sector...

We examine the influence of normative and regulative institutional factors on cost shifting by nonprofit hospitals in their publicly reported statements. We explore whether normative constraints imposed by stakeholders, who prefer that nonprofit hospitals allocate their resources toward...