Responding to pressures for comprehensive change, nearly a third of the nation’s schools have adopted some form of site-based management. This case study is the result of a three year empirical investigation of one elementary school district’s systemic reform effort. Through an event history, the story recounts the implementation of reforms where the thrust toward site based management was acco...

he era of reform has arrived at the doorstep and captured the full attention of schools across America. In many communities, fundamental assumptions about teaching and learning, particularly in high schools, are being carefully scrutinized and, in some cases, transformed dramatically. For the past fifteen years (i.e., since the publication of A Nation at Risk), the political, economic, and soci...

This paper focuses on the balance between central governmental control, autonomy for health care institutions and (quasi)-market mechanisms by examining recent health care reforms in Norway, Denmark and United Kingdom. The reforms involve strengthening of overall central government control, simultaneously representing a decentralized system of management and business-like mechanisms to ensure p...

We model the coordination of specialized tasks inside an organization as “attribute matching.” Using this method, we compare the performance of organizational forms (M-form and U-form) in implementing changes such as innovation and reform. In our framework, organizational forms affect the information structure of an organization and thus the way to coordinate changes. Compared to the U-form, th...

Extended Abstract Modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been heralded as a key enabler of more integrated, flexible, network forms of organizing, thereby promoting the " free and unfettered exchange of information across boundaries " and inspiring " the transformation of all types of institutions " (Conference Theme, ICIS 2004). In this paper, we critically examine such ...

This paper examines the research from within and outside of higher education on the practices of high-performance organizations. It assesses the extent to which community colleges generally are following these practices and evaluates current reform efforts in light of models of organizational effectiveness that emerge from the research literature. It then reviews research on strategies for enga...

Undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education reform continues to be a national priority. We studied a reform process in undergraduate biology at a research-intensive university to explore what leadership issues arose in implementation of the initiative when characterized with a descriptive case study method. The data were drawn from transcripts of meetings th...

introduction: one of the reasons for the maintenance of each organization to increase its productivity is having the consistency in values and beliefs and its overall organizational culture. therefore, for any organization that seeks to achieve some kind of advantage, it must be ensured to the existing organizational culture and also, attention to practical solutions for creating coherence in i...