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Every organization depends upon its environment for the elements it requires for achieving its goals. To some degree, organizations with similar purposes compete for these elements. Both internal and external factors may affect the receipt of support. Sponsorship is examined as an example of the relationship between support and internal characteristics. Support received by short-term general hospitals is measured in terms of funds, patients, and community participation. The differential support received by local governmental and voluntary hospitals is interpreted as indicating a social-class role of government. The implications of the findings for a theay of support may be that sponsorship serves to differentiate organizations and to connect them to segments of the community which offer varying amounts of support. Ray H. Elling is an assistant professor and director of the hospitalcommunity relations study, Sloan Institute of Hospital Administration, Graduate School of Business and Public Administration, Cornell University; and Sandor Halebsky is a research assistant at Cornell.'
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