International Journal of Educational Management: Volume 28 Issue 5

Designing school contexts for success: paternalism or libertarianism?

Lauren P. Bailes, Wayne K. Hoy

– The purpose of this paper is to develop, illustrate, and apply the concept of choice architecture to schools.

A study of male participation in early childhood education: Perspectives of school stakeholders

Dora Ho, Haze Lam

The function of early childhood education (ECE) has shifted from mothering to nurturing child development in Hong Kong. Teaching in kindergartens seems to be more attractive to…

Authentic leadership in English education: what do college teachers tell us?

David William Stoten

The purpose of this paper is to report on an investigation into the perceived prevalence of authentic leadership behaviours in Sixth Form College (SFC) Principals. This research…

Towards sustainable capitalism in the development of higher education business school curricula and management

Peter Beusch

The purpose of this paper is to account for, and conceptualize, the internal and external forces that influence higher education business schools as they strive to integrate…

The intellectual identity of educational administration: views of Israeli academics

Izhar Oplatka, Idit Nupar

The purpose of this paper is twofold, to answer two questions: how do senior educational administration (EA) field members perceive the field's scholarly aims and boundaries and…

Symbolic leadership culture and its subcultures in one unified comprehensive school in Finland

Tapio Juhani Lahtero, Mika Risku

– The purpose of this paper is to describe a symbolic-interpretative research on the leadership culture and its subcultures in one unified comprehensive school in Finland.

Comparative study of behavioral mindsets in team decision

Philip S. Chong, Ming Chen, Xuemei Su

Resource allocation is an important area of strategic planning in any organization, including higher education. In comparing two case examples of a college's efforts in shared…

Becoming an education provider of choice in Hong Kong: an inquiry into student decision making

Angel Po Cheung Lai, Paul Gibson, Siva Muthaly

Managers in higher education require cost effective ways to attract the optimal number of students. The purpose of this paper is to address that general problem at the college…

Managing the University Campus: Information to Support Real Estate Decisions

Naif Alghamdi

Editorial

Brian Roberts