Organizational Adaptation to Changing Environments

Abstract

Our primary purpose in this article is to describe a conceptual approach to research on mental health organizations that we believe may be useful for social scientists and policymakers interested in understanding and improving mental health services.To illustrate the conceptual ap- proach, we will describe briefly a study of community mental health centers that we are currently conducting at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.In effect, this article presents a case study of one approach to research on mental health organizations. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK AND ASSUMPTIONSThe conceptual framework for our research, depicted in Table 1, rests on a set of assumptions conceming( I) the environment of mental health organizations, (2) organizational response or adaptation to the envi- ronment, and (1) client-organization relationships.These are discussed in some detail in this section,

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