Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 43 Issue 1

Introduction: Organization theory, educational leadership and educational research

Bob L. Johnson, Janice R. Fauske

This essay argues that it is time to revisit and reintegrate the contributions of organization theory to the understanding of educational organizations and leadership.

Routines in school organizations: Creating stability and change

Sharon Conley, Ernestine K. Enomoto

This paper presents routinized action theory as a way to examine the regular, habitual activities that occur in school organizations. Using this theoretical lens, school routines…

Organizational learning theory in schools

Janice R. Fauske, Rebecca Raybould

The paper's purposes are to establish organizational learning theory as evolving from the theoretical and empirical study of organizations and to build grounded theory explaining…

Building new bridges: Linking organization theory with other educational literatures

Bob L. Johnson, Michael Owens

This paper provides an example of how organization theory can be linked with other literatures in a complementary and productive manner. Establishing a bridge between the…

Bridging or buffering?: The impact of schools’ adaptive strategies on student achievement

Michael F. DiPaola, Megan Tschannen‐Moran

Rational and open system theories offer divergent sets of tactics on how best to deal with factors outside the boundary of the school. This study compared two competing strategies…

The business‐education relationship: Using organization theory to conceptualize a research agenda

Rodney T. Ogawa, Ruth H. Kim

The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize the relationship between business and education and thereby offer a research agenda for examining the influence of business on…

Universities as communities of fate: Institutional rhetoric and student retention policy

David Waggoner, Paul Goldman

What is the rhetoric that higher education institutions use when they develop and publish policies to improve student retention? Using the organization literature on institutional…

Mountains, flatlands and tenuous meaning: Organizational sociology in administrative sense‐making

Duane M. Covrig

Contingency and institutional theories of organizational development are used to describe and interpret the 100‐year history of a health science university and to then make a case…

Postscript: where have we been?: Where are we going in the study of educational organizations?

William D. Greenfield

The paper shares observations on each article in this volume, concluding that educational administration has continued to evolve in the application of organizational theory to…