This study used portable technology based on Experience Sampling Methodology (ESM log) to register workday practices of school principals and heads from Chilean schools who were implementing school improvement plans aimed at developing a culture of organizational learning. For a week, Smartphone devices which beeped seven times a day were given to School Principals and Heads of TechnicalPedagog...

Disclosure is widely assumed to play an important role in corporate governance. Yet governance has not been the focus of previous academic analyses of disclosure. We consider disclosure in the context of corporate governance. We argue that disclosure is a two-edged sword. On one side, disclosure of information permits principals to make better decisions. On the other, it can create or exacerbat...

I develop a theoretical framework that encompasses the pre-existing strategies for evaluating whether bureaucratic agencies are accountable to legislative principals. I assume the legislature contains several types of principals, each with a different authority that determines their access to instruments of agency control. This access to the instruments of agency control allows principals to co...

The focus of this study was to examine the leadership role as lived by teaching principals in a selection of small primary schools in the west of Ireland and in particular the implications ICT has for that role. The study involved the use of individual one-to-one semi-structured interviews with a selection of thirteen primary school principals in the mid west region. Following analysis of the i...

In a spatial common agency model, two asymmetric interest groups (principals) in‡uence a unique decision-maker (agent). The decision-maker chooses a onedimensional policy on behalf of those principals and has private information about his ideology after contracting with principals. The policy is always e¢ cient and re‡ects a weighted average between the principals’ and the agent’s ideal points....

OBJECTIVE To assess current sun protection policies and the receptiveness to new policies at elementary schools in the United States. DESIGN A cross-sectional telephone survey. SETTING General educational community. PATIENTS OR OTHER PARTICIPANTS In 1998, a random sample of 1000 public elementary schools in the United States was selected (proportional to population size) from 27 metropoli...

Purpose: This paper illustrates how successful leaders combine the too often dichotomised practices of transformational and instructional leadership in different ways across different phases of their schools’ development in order to progressively shape and ‘layer’ the improvement culture in making a difference to students’ outcomes. Research methods: Empirical data were drawn from a three-year ...

One of the reasons why market economies are able to thrive is that they exploit the willingness of entrepreneurs to take risks that laborers might prefer to avoid. Markets work because they remunerate good judgement and punish mistakes. Indeed, modern contract theory is based on the assumption that principals are less risk averse than agents. We investigate if the risk preferences of entreprene...

The present research study explores how the school principals in rural KwaZulu – Natal, South Africa, experience bride abductions in their schools. It draws on systems theory. Data was collected using purposive sample and in-depth interviews with four school principals and two superintendents of Education Management. All interviews were conducted in isiZulu, tape – recorded, then transcribed an...