Governments around the world are increasingly turning to the use of stand-alone, state-
owned utilities to deliver core services such as water and electricity. This article reviews the …

This paper investigates how key elements of school culture are associated with teachers'
capacity to find and act on new information. We analyzed survey data from 3,579 teachers …

This article considers distributed leadership in the context of the extensive literature on post-
bureaucratic organisations. It suggests that both distributed leadership and bureaucracy are …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review and synthesize the attributes of loose and
tight coupling in educational organizations. In addition, it is aimed to determine whether this …

Drawing on postcolonial theory this text offers a critique of international management. It
argues that such disciplines are Western discourses and exhibit historical and current …

Service organizations are encouraged to consider the manner in which employees perform
at the customer/front‐line employee interface, as a means to gain competitive advantage …

Where are university administrators placed in texts that are centred around universities?
There appears to be either a total confusion in terminology about administration or a …

Pallavi Tyagi is an Associate Professor at Amity College of Commerce and Finance, Amity
University, Noida, UP, India. She has received her MBA degree from Banasthali University …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to extend the discussion of the recursive relationship
between the identity of a profession and the professional identity of individuals in the context …

The institutional environment of US school systems has changed considerably over a
quarter century as standards and test-based accountability became central ideas in policy …