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Smithers, O. Lester (Oral Lester), and Arthur Beaty. "Comparative analysis of career anchors of black professionals and managers in the private and public sectors." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/15147.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1985.MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND DEWEY.
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by O. Lester Smithers, Jr. and Arthur Beaty, Jr.
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Ross, Janice Helen. "The changing relationships between the public, private and voluntary sectors in pre-school provision, 1982-1987." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387328.
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Lilius, Camilla. "Ekonomelevers extrajobb under gymnasietiden : Utvecklingsmöjligheter för studie- och yrkesvägledningen." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-79576.
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The knowledge of early employment experiences has evolved over the last decade in countries such as Australia and Great Britain. In Sweden, this type of research is still unusual and the aim of this study was to break new ground by highlighting some areas that could be of extra interest in the Swedish early employment research to come. A focus in the study was to give an overview of what job sectors school students work in; and the amount of jobs aquired through school-organized work placement, private social networks or personal marketing of own merits. In addition to this, a multi variate analysis was carried out to find patterns in the picture of early employment experiences among students at upper secondary school. The findings of the study has relevance for ways of conducting career counselling and therefore the general aim of this study is to point out the importance of developing the practises of vocational psychology. A survey among 74 teenaged school students with economics as their main subject has been carried out in a mid-size Swedish city May 2012. 62 school students answered. The survey showed that 94% of the students had part-time jobs. Most common was to have 1-3 employers during the three years at upper secondary school. Most students worked in the job-sectors retail (29%), catering (23%), and care of the elderly (14%). An interesting finding was that no Swedish students seemed to work with delivery. This is surprising since this job-sector is big among school students in both Australia and Great Britain. Another interesting find was ways of aquiring a job. Not surprisingly most jobs were aquired through private social networks (59%), but some job-sectors stood out as pathways to a job for those students without the right social networks. In catering 48% of the jobs were aquired through marketing of own merits, and in the care of the elderly job-sector 78% of the jobs were aquired this way. The study indicates that early work experiences in Sweden in major parts reflect the research carried out in Austalia and Great Britain. But some research areas differ. A more close look at early work experiences among teenaged school students in Sweden is therefore necessary to develop vocational psychology and to incorporate learning outside school into school practices. An aspect that has been observed sofar is the way in which social background steers both the experience of early employment and career choice.
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Oliveira, Pezente Aline (De Souza Oliveira Pezente). "Predictive demand models in the food and agriculture sectors : an analysis of the current models and results of a novel approach using machine learning techniques with retail scanner data." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117950.
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Thesis: S.M. in Management of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2018.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 51-53).
Agriculture commodities production and consumption are typically not aligned since the timing of commodity production with its pace of consumption is disjoint, once commodities are often produced periodically (with certain crops being harvested once a year) but with a continuous consumption throughout the year. The temporal mismatches in production and consumption require both commodities consumers (food industries) and producers (farmers) to predict future consumption based on limited unreliable information, about the future of demand and available historical data. Consequently, the lack of an appropriate understanding of what is the actual food consumption trend, lead's the producers in some cases to make wrong bets, which eventually causes food waste, price volatility and excess commodities stock. The commodities market has a good view of short-term supply fundamentals but still lacks powerful tools and frameworks to estimate long-term demand fundamentals, of which will drive the future supply. This thesis studies commodities demand forecasting using Nielsen's Retail Scanners data based on machine learning techniques to construct nonlinear parametric models of commodities consumption, using the U.S sugar cane as our use case. By combining Nielsen Retail Scanner data from January 2006 to December 2015 for a sample of 30% of U.S retail, wholesalers and small shops, considering a basket of products that has sugar as one of its main components, we were able to construct out-of-sample forecasts that significantly improve the prediction of sugar demand compared to classical base-line model approach of the historical moving average.
by Aline Oliveira Pezente.
S.M. in Management of Technology
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Mortimer, Hannah. "A study to evaluate how the Music Makers Approach can be used as a training method to develop reflective practice in pre-school workers in the voluntary and private sectors." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.370057.
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Eriksson, Roger. "EU:s grannskapspolitik i Medelhavsregionen : En säkerhetspolitisk analys av Medelhavssamarbetet." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Social Sciences, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-2490.
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The thesis investigates how the European Union promotes stability and security in the Mediterranean region. The aim is to analyse the European Union’s security ambitions with Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, the Barcelona Process. An analytical framework with five sectors (military, political, economic, environmental and societal), based on the Copenhagen School’s theories about security sectors and securitization, is used for the analysis. Within the framework threats, objectives and methods are categorized into each security sector. Then it is possible to distinguish if any sector is more prioritised by the EU. Qualitative text analysis is used to examine relevant EU-documents. The result of the analysis shows that the European Union prioritizes the economical and societal sector in promoting peace and security within the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. Through economical integration and cultural dialogue, the EU tries to enhance security and stability. The EU emphasises the importance of global governance and international law for a stable peace. The study concludes that the widened concept of security, within the Copenhagen School, can help to explain the European Union’s work inside the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.
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Sjöberg, Skoglund Johanna. "Regionala organisationer som säkerhetsaktörer : En studie av regionala organisationer som verktyg för säkerhet och förstärkare av legitimitet och inkludering." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-6993.
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The regional security aspect is becoming increasingly more important within security studies. The United Nations and the United Nations Security Council has expressed an intent to utilize regional organizations as security actors with regards to maintaining international peace and security, with the purpose of achieving a greater sense of legitimacy for conflict resolution. This study aims to explore the possibilities of using such organizations within regions of varying stability, and how this usage can relate to the idea of legitimacy. Based on regional security complex theory, this study seeks to show how regional organizations have been used by the Security Council within different security sectors, and how this usage is affected by the degree of integration within the region. The result of the study show that the idea of legitimacy is easiest to achieve in regions with a mid-level degree of regional integration and concerning questions of political security. The results also show a tendency within the Security Council to use organizations from other regions with higher levels of integration in regions with lower levels of integration, and raises the question if this way of using regional organizations may risk harming the ultimate goal of legitimacy.
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Eatman, Timothy Allen. "Student Variables Contributing to Program Completion in Career School Sector For-Profit Schools." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9106/.
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The general purpose of the study was to compile current descriptive information for recent graduates from career school sector institutions that reveals the significant factors which contributed to their program completion. The research project focused upon career school program completers. The scope of the study was directed to recent program completers at two career schools in Texas which offer a cross-section of programs designed to provide students specific skills for immediate employment. Based upon an extensive review of literature and the input of a focus group of experienced career school administrators and faculty members, seven variables were determined to be worthy of a focused study of their possible contributions to career school program completion. The variables were ability to accept responsibility for completion, academic preparedness, family or friends support system, self-esteem, life skills preparedness, sense of being goal-oriented, and sense of connectedness to the school. It was determined that each of the seven variables existed prominently in the majority of these recent graduates. The researcher concludes that there is a tremendous need for continued study that is focused on career school sector students. The paper offers the suggestion of a specific retention program that can be employed by career school administrators to emphasize the 7 variables and implement specific interventions designed to increase student retention and program completion.
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Eatman, Timothy Allen Fulton-Calkins Patsy. "Student variables contributing to program completion in career school sector for-profit schools." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2008. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-9106.
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Lloyd, Christine Berry. "THE FIRST GRADE PRIVATE SCHOOL SECTOR: TAXONOMY, CHOICE, AND ACHIEVEMENT." Lexington, Ky. : [University of Kentucky Libraries], 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10225/706.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Kentucky, 2007.Title from document title page (viewed on March 31, 2008). Document formatted into pages; contains: x, 196 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-195).
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Awang, Marinah. "Knowledge management in Malaysian secondary schools : implications of the "Smart School" initiative." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1635.
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Knowledge management is a response to the growing realization of knowledge as the deliverer of organizational success. Because much attention has been given to the private sector, knowledge management initiatives in educational settings seem to be lacking. Considering that knowledge activities – capturing, creating, sharing, applying and storing – are important activities in education, particularly schools, the failure to fully appreciate the potential of managing knowledge within education is surprising. A review of the literature suggests that factors such as management, technology and culture contribute differently to managing knowledge in many organizations. The management factor, for example, was a catalyst in providing a conducive work environment, whereas technology provides the mechanism as an enabler for knowledge management initiatives. Culture was important for the knowledge context and could play a significant role in the uptake of managing knowledge. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between these contextual factors – management, technology and culture – and the knowledge activities. The study took place in Malaysian secondary schools and highlighted the Smart School Project as one of the seven flagships of Malaysia Multimedia Super Corridor. A mixed method approach was used as a strategy of inquiry in order to explore the knowledge management contextual factors in relation to knowledge activities. The quantitative method focused on collecting data based on a survey instrument. There were 1313 respondents and Smart Schools and non Smart Schools participated in responding to the questionnaire. As for the interview method, the study focused on 21 individuals who were purposely selected based on their special implementation roles in the schools – school principals, information technology coordinators and teachers. The survey data were analysed by using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software. There were three types of statistical application used, namely the descriptive statistics, the t-test and regression, whereas the interview data were analysed manually by looking and searching for noticeable patterns to be connected to the research framework. The findings suggest that although there is no explicit knowledge management system used in managing knowledge in the educational sector, there are a lot of elements and positive practices of knowledge management already in place that could help schools to develop and encourage activities such as knowledge sharing. As far as the contribution of the contextual factors to knowledge activities, technology was an important instrument in all of the knowledge activities, but it was certainly not the only or the most prominent one. The culture factor played a more significant role in all knowledge activities particularly when knowledge sharing was considered as a social and spiritual obligation in the communities of practice. Despite this, there were also barriers in the uptake of knowledge management initiatives in schools which seemed to limit knowledge activities due to time constraints and teacher workload.
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Casanova, Ricardo. "Privatization of telecommunications sector in Colombia." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/10538.
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Anders, Jeff M. B. A. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "The domestic travel sector in China." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39532.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2007.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 46-47).
China is already the largest domestic tourism market in the world. Chinese citizens made as many as 800 million overnight domestic trips in 2005. While travel is not a new concept in China, the disposable income they wield, the range of options becoming available and individual tastes are changing every day. This paper has two main objectives: (1) to detail the characteristics of the domestic Chinese traveler and, to a lesser extent, foreign inbound and Chinese outbound tourists; and (2) to explore the different drivers of tourism development and growth in China. Both sections are targeted at businesspeople and governments thinking about tourism-related business ventures, and at policymakers considering how best to stimulate tourism, consumption and economic gain. The Chinese people are eager to explore China - they will travel at home before going abroad. Tourism is not the exclusive purview of cosmopolitan urbanites; rural Chinese travel too. Chinese domestic tourists want overwhelmingly to visit natural landscapes when they travel. They also want more specialized and less visited destinations.
(cont.) They pay for lodging and spend as much on retail purchases as on lodging or food. Domestic Chinese business is the main driver of business travel in China The major drivers of tourism growth in China are: the rise of the middle class, expansion of business and trade, government policy, public infrastructure, private industry, Cooperative Tourism Zones, mega-events and conventions, and increased leisure time.
by Jeff Anders.
M.B.A.
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Roman, Marco Antonio 1971. "Lean aerospace initiative electronic sector study." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82680.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2000.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Includes bibliographical references (leaf 75).
by Marco Antonio Roman.
S.M.
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Bodduluri, Radhika Mohan Choudary. "Strategies of manufacturers in the automobile sector." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/93005.
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Thesis: M.B.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2014.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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An in-depth analysis of the automobile data from 1980 to 2006 is carried out with a goal of understanding strategies employed by various manufacturers in bringing their models to the market in a retrospective fashion. The data analysis tries to identify the differences in specific parameters of focus by US and Asian manufacturers which might have led to their strategies of market positioning over this period. The analysis itself is carried out both qualitatively by understanding the data in different ways, and qualitatively by running regressions. We show that fuel economy and acceleration were the two parameters of focus for Asian Manufacturers whereas US manufacturers might have focused more on horsepower and torque during this period.
by Radhika Mohan Bodduluri.
M.B.A.
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De, Laurentiis Valeria. "Environmental sustainability assessment of the primary school catering sector." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8183/.
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Current food production and consumption practices are depleting natural resources and polluting ecosystems at a rate that is unsustainable and are one of the main causes of anthropogenic climate change. If this trend does not change, externalities of food production will be exacerbated in future decades due to population growth and increasing living standards. A shift towards low impact diets has been proposed as part of the solution. The public food sector offers tremendous potential for influencing such a shift; however currently in the UK this potential is only partially exploited as national guidelines for public food procurement avoid promoting the adoption of low impact menus. This doctoral research aims at addressing this shortfall by creating a procedure for the design of low impact primary school menus. This is informed by a life-cycle based tool (the Environmental Assessment Tool of School meals, EATS) that enables catering companies and local authorities to self-assess the environmental impact of a meal in terms of its carbon and water footprint, with the purpose of identifying hotspot meals and comparing alternatives in the design of new menus. The data underlying EATS includes the results of a meta-analysis of the existing literature on the carbon footprint of 110 food products commonly used in the preparation of primary school meals in the UK. To validate EATS, a statistical analysis of the underlying data was performed, feedback from its potential users was collected, three case study analyses were developed, and the results provided were compared with existing studies.
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Gharbi, Moez S. M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Challenges and opportunities in the Tunisian private equity sector." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72866.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis..
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Most of the studies and research analyzing the private equity ("PE") sector in the Middle East North Africa ("MENA") region tend to focus more on the Middle East and less on North Africa. The case of Tunisia is probably the most appealing within the North African region regarding the transformational phase the industry is going through there. Accordingly, the main objective of this thesis will be to provide some keys to understand the dynamics of private equity in Tunisia. The recent uprising has shown how ardently people are seeking a radical change in the current political and socio-economic model. Studying the private equity sector in Tunisia whilst balancing the underlying hurdles and opportunities, is certainly a first step towards understanding a complex but fundamental issue: how and to what extent can the promotion and the revitalization of investments in the country's private sector constitute a key lever for the government to meet the social claim for a sustainable development? First of all, I believe it is essential to apprehend the backdrop of Tunisian private equity by analyzing global trends of the private equity industry, the rise of interest in emerging markets as well as the current macro environment in Tunisia. I will then examine the drivers and fundamentals of PE investment in Tunisia by analyzing the current framework in place and the specificities of the private equity lifecycle - from fundraising to exit. Finally, I will endeavor to investigate the hurdles various stakeholders might face as well as the opportunities they might enjoy, and I will ultimately highlight some of the options available to overcome obstacles and take advantage of favorable circumstances.
by Moez Gharbi.
S.M.
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Wu, Mengfei 1955. "A study of restructuring in the Chinese petroleum sector." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8505.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2002.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 90).
China's oil industry has experienced fundamental changes since 1988. China's oil market will be open to foreign companies just a few years after its entry into the WTO in the end of 2001. The three national petroleum companies had been privatized and listed in overseas capital market exchanges during 2000~2001. This thesis reviews the restructuring process at both industry level and company levels. At the industry level, it summarizes what has been done since 1988 by the Chinese government, and how entry into WTO will influence the industry. At the company level, it reviews how the national oil companies were reorganized, restructured, and privatized. The thesis also paints a picture of the current competitive situation in the China oil industry, and explores how the three Chinese oil companies initiated a series of internal re-structurings after their listing in order to achieve a better positioning in the new competition context. The thesis also studies how the companies perform in a changed industry environment. It discusses the learning process that happened on both sides - the companies and the capital markets. It also analysis what impacts the capital markets have had on the three previously state-owned companies.
by Mengfei Wu.
M.B.A.
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Golabi, Zanyar. "The role of energy sector in sustainable development in Iran." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65800.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-158).
Generally speaking, both supply and use of energy in Iran are unsustainable. The unsustainable energy supply and use coupled with an unreliable and unsecure energy system have striking and lasing impacts on economic, social and environmental development of Iran. Natural gas and oil have dominated the total production of energy sources (TPES) in Iran for the past 50 years. Natural gas has also dominated the total final consumption (TFC) since 1999. Other alternative resources have been playing marginal roles in Iran's development. The high share of fossil fuels in energy supply and use has striking social, economic and environmental consequences. Additionally, Iran's reliance on oil and gas resources makes the energy sector in Iran vulnerable and highly unsecure. In order to address these issues, I provide indicators of energy sustainability and analyze the trends of these indicators systematically. These indicators help policy makers as well as public and private sectors get a better understanding of major driving forces that affect energy sustainability, economic prosperity as well as social and environmental well-being. Based on these indicators, I explore the impacts of energy subsidies, innovation policies, technological advancement, renewable energy development, US sanctions, international cooperation, geopolitical instability, and many other factors on Iran's sustainable development. Based on an in depth analysis of current state of energy sector in Iran and the characteristics of a sustainable energy system, I propose strategies and policies that can result in a more sustainable energy sector which in turn contributes to the economic prosperity, social and environmental well-being and higher energy security.
by Zanyar Golabi.
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Nadella, Bhanuteja. "Sustainability initiatives in the food retail sector : factors for success." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104511.
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Thesis: S.M. in Management Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2016.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 29-30).
The world's population is expected to reach 9 billion by 2050 and this creates an increased demand for food. Food manufacturers and retailers are scrambling to cater to this growth. However, they are also under constant pressure to manage their business operations more sustainably from external stakeholders such as consumers and governments. Consumers are demanding healthier and more ethically produced food products. Governments are strongly regulating the usage of natural resources such as water and land. These pressures have led many large food manufacturers and retailers to launch sustainability oriented projects and initiatives within their firm. These range from new product development and innovations to reducing environmental footprint of their operations. The outcome of these projects depends on different organizational factors. This thesis explores the question - What are the factors that contribute towards the success and failure of sustainability-oriented innovation and practices in the food manufacturing and retailing sector? What are the reasons for the positive outcome of a certain type of program/initiative? Based on literature review and semi-structured interviews with change agents in these firms, the thesis outlines different factors that could contribute towards a potentially successful sustainability project or initiative. Leadership & corporate vision, organizational complexities and incentive structures are identified as key reasons why these projects may succeed or fail.
by Bhanuteja Nadella.
S.M. in Management Studies
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Duggan, Mary. "School accountability in the Western Australian public school sector: Perceptions of leaders in the field." Thesis, Duggan, Mary (2009) School accountability in the Western Australian public school sector: Perceptions of leaders in the field. Masters by Research thesis, Murdoch University, 2009. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/3000/.
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The study investigates school leaders’ understanding of the influence of accountability policy on school improvement. The focus is on the leaders’ experiences of implementing accountability policy, with reference to policy stability, coherence and consistency. More specifically, the research examines how school self-assessment and school review, two aspects of the Western Australian Department of Education and Training’s school accountability policy, are perceived to influence the practices of educators to bring about improvements for students.
Much has been written about school improvement, effectiveness, accountability and leadership. However, the implementations of accountability policies, which purport to achieve school improvement, have not been widely studied in Western Australia. Furthermore, the perspectives of those making judgements of school performance are not widely evident in the Australian literature. As the nature and pace of accountability reforms continue, the implementation of accountability policy is an area that warrants further examination.
The Australian reforms echo changes in other developed countries. The Australian accountability agenda includes national student testing, a national curriculum and the publication of school performance data. These reforms are consistent with a framework, which emphasises increasing devolution of responsibility for student achievement to schools, concurrent with explicit expectations of student performance as part of school accountability. From 2002 to 2007, Western Australian Public Schools used school review as a formal mechanism for reporting a school’s improvement and school self-assessment practices to the Department of Education and Training.
In the past decade, policy shifts reflect an increasingly managerial, bureaucratic approach to accountability. The characteristics of this approach contrast with a professional orientation, which acquires authority by virtue of collective professional knowledge. A managerial approach acquires authority through structural hierarchy. However, in the educational setting, the success of accountability policy implementation is mediated by the orientation of teachers and principals.
This study draws on semi-structured interviews with a purposively selected small sample of district directors and school principals. The participants represent a range of management experience, school size, school type and school location. The data were analysed for themes and then represented using narratives. Narratives are advantageous to this type of qualitative study where participants report diverse experiences because they can be synthesised to illuminate context and meaning to a phenomenon.
The findings of this study indicate tensions between principals’ approaches to accountability and accountability policy orientations. Some principals and district directors experience dissonance when they encounter the managerial, bureaucratic manifestations of accountability, such as increased reliance on standardised testing of students as an improvement indicator. These tensions contribute to low policy fidelity and suggest that school review does not necessarily lead to school improvement. School self-assessment, on the other hand, is perceived to be instrumental in bringing about improvement to student achievement. Low achieving schools encountered significant barriers to successful School self-assessment and reported additional resourcing as a desirable outcome of school accountability processes. The study reveals that a further barrier to the implementation of accountability policies was the nature of change management and a perception of increased scrutiny and system insistence on compliance, regardless of the needs and nature of a school.
Finally, this research has implications for the design and implementation of accountability policy and processes in Western Australian public schools. Based on this research, further studies in the area of school accountability focused on the role of other school leaders in accountability processes, would expand current understandings. Furthermore, cross-sectoral responses and comparisons between primary and secondary schools would augment knowledge about the implementation of school accountability policy. Further investigation of the role accountability plays for the State’s most disadvantaged schools would be advantageous.
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Gazi, Luvo Ndileka. "An analysis of challenges facing decentralisation of sector education and training authorities in the province of the Eastern Cape." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1346.
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It is largely believed that decentralisation promotes efficiency in organisations. This paper analyses the challenges facing decentralisation of Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETAs) in the Province of the Eastern Cape. It is demonstrated that the form of decentralisation followed by SETAs in the Province of the Eastern Cape, where constant referral of matters to head offices for decisions and instruction before any action is taken, by them is the biggest challenge. Yet these important institutions are mandated by government to equip South Africans with skills to enable them to succeed in the global market and to offer opportunities to individuals and communities for self advancement and to play a productive role in society are frustrated by unnecessary interference from SETA national offices on their affairs at the provincial government level, which constrains effective decentralisation. However, the objectives of the study are to: - Analyse the challenges of decentralisation by SETAs in the Province of the Eastern Cape; - Provide an overview of the impact of SETA provincial offices on requisite skills in the province; - Investigate the advantages and disadvantages of decentralising SETAs in the provinces. These objectives have been achieved by providing empirical evidence as indicated in chapter four, where it shows that participants believe that decentralisation promotes efficiency and SETAs in the Province of the Eastern Cape are not granted discretionary powers to make decisions a primary reason that leads to delays being experienced. This lack of discretionary power is proof that decision-making is still centralised. The study has the following strategies for the SETAs in the Province of the Eastern Cape to carry out their skills development mandate: - Clear strategic intent about SETA provincial offices; - Sector Skills Plans (SSP) to reflect provincial focus; - Provincial offices to exercise some discretionary powers; - Adequate financial resources; - Skilled workforce. In order to be more effective and efficient, a variety of recommendations to SETAs, with respect to decentralisation of SETAs, were made. It is hoped that these recommendations assist in improvement of the implementation of a decentralisation strategy. More importantly decentralisation of SETAs should allow and enable branch offices to exercise discretionary powers. In addition, they should have adequate financial resources to manage their affairs.
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Yankosky, Richard E. "The proprietary school sector: a demographic and financial aid profile." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/54820.
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The purpose of this study was to answer several questions concerning distribution of student financial aid in the proprietary school sector. The study was conducted in the Spring of 1989 using a Fall, 1986, nationally representative sample of 3,837 students attending less than two-year and two-year proprietary schools in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The sample was drawn as part of the National Postsecondary Student Aid Survey (NPSAS) conducted by the National Center for Educational Statistics in the 1986/87 academic year. Data came from edited NPSAS tapes dated May 12, 1988.
Several statistical procedures from the Statistical Analysis System (SAS) and Lotus 1-2-3 were used to answer research questions related to (1) types of educational services provided by proprietary schools, (2) types of students receiving financial aid; and, (3) types of aid packages distributed in these schools.
Several of the major results are: (1) Proprietary schools provided short-term, high-cost vocational training leading to relatively low-paying entry-level jobs. (2) Over four-fifths (84%) of the students received financial aid. The majority of these students were unmarried (74%), female (67%), less than 23 years of age (52%), lived off-campus (98%) and attended school on a full—time basis (81%). Nearly one-half (48%) of dependent and 70 percent of independent recipients had incomes of less than $20,000. About 30 percent lacked a high school diploma. Almost 43% percent were from minority backgrounds with over 70 percent having incomes under $11,000. (3) Nearly 80 percent of the recipients received either a single source of aid or two sources of aid in their aid packages. About 88 percent of this aid came from the federal government with the Guaranteed Student Loan and Pell Grant programs the predominate sources.Ed. D.
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Kang, Catherine W. "The U.S. Coast Guard sector construct : A study of organizational culture." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37120.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2006.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 103-105).
The U. S. Coast Guard has recently merged the operational forces responsible for maritime security in port and coastal zones into a new organization called the Sector construct. This thesis examines the cultural issues associated with this reorganization and poses three questions: 1. What are the cultural challenges associated with the Sector organization? 2. To what extent is cultural management relevant to the Coast Guard's strategic planning process? 3. How can the senior managers of the Coast Guard intentionally manage culture in order to facilitate lasting organizational change? The application of frameworks from several academic fields presents a holistic view of Coast Guard culture - its history, present state of transition, and future implications.
by Catherin W. Kang.
M.B.A.
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Crathan, Ansbert. "Challenges in service marketing in private sector education." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2002.
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Ng, Kam-cheung Ken. "Public sector reform : initiatives and goals : the case of education reform in Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B22054315.
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Cuttance, Peter. "The effectiveness of schooling : variation in attainment among schools and among educational sectors." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/18813.
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de, Montigny Joanne G. "Toward the Creation of Healthy Schools: Constructing a School Health Partnership Model for Student Well-being to Inspire and Guide Public Health and Education Professionals, at All Levels, and Mental Health Leads." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39223.
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Over twenty years ago, the World Health Organization launched a health promoting school movement as part of its settings approach to creating healthy environments. Partnerships across the public health and education sectors are vitally important in efforts to improve the health of children and youth in a school setting. In support of this principle, major advancements have been made within Ontario’s education sector, such as mandating local school systems to incorporate the goal of student well-being into their improvement plans and promoting the use of their Foundations for a Healthy School framework. Furthermore, the provincial ministries of education and health are actively encouraging the strengthening of local school health partnerships. However, there is a lack of knowledge within the health promoting school literature as to how to go about establishing well-functioning partnerships within local school systems.
To address this problem, the thesis project aimed to generate knowledge about partnerships between public health professionals and local school system actors, and to shed light on the potential for collaboration toward the creation of healthy schools. Before embarking on this thesis project, however, a conceptual framework was developed to gain a firm understanding of cross-sector collaboration for social change, since collaboration represents a partnership at the highest level of engagement. Two other literature reviews were carried out to understand further the partnership component of health promoting school models, and to show the extent of the knowledge gap existing in this area. The literature review on health promoting schools identifies, to a limited extent, the fundamental elements that specifically constitute school health partnerships at both the school and school board levels. Likewise, the scoping review that examines the knowledge-base on the different types of partnership for health promotion within school systems revealed an absence of in-depth knowledge on this topic.
When setting out to fill this knowledge gap, an exploratory research methodology that was primarily qualitative in design was chosen. It included a participatory orientation, whereby a research steering committee of 10 public health managers provided guidance with the formulation of the research question, and with the data collection and interpretation stages of the research project’s public health sector phase. An online survey of school health partnership actors from all 36 Ontario public health units was carried out, along with semi-structured interviews with key school health informants from 32 of these public health units and from six school boards in the province. Although the contribution from the education sector was not as pronounced, school board participants corroborated the findings from participating public health professionals and provided additional insights to gain a clearer understanding of partnership challenges and how to strengthen school health partnerships. Thematic analysis of the collected data was performed based on both deductive and inductive reasoning.
From the public health perspective, a school health partnership model for student well-being was constructed. This model was enhanced to some extent by the views of school board representatives. It is composed of two dimensions: the Partnership Generator, and the Collaboration Continuum. The Partnership Generator comprises four inter-related components, namely cross-sector engagement, connection, capacity, and continuity, with relationship building at its core. The cross-sector engagement component encompasses various elements that enrich engagement across the public health and education sectors, while the other three components consist of those elements that enable this engagement. The connection elements motivate school health partners to engage, whereas the capacity elements determine the extent to which engagement can take place. Finally, the elements that make up the continuity component maintain the momentum that motivated cross-sector engagement created based on the capacity that was made available through this engagement. Each of these elements contribute to a school health partnership’s strength. The Collaboration Continuum dimension refers to school health partners’ movement from one partnership arrangement to the next, with increasingly more extensive levels of cross-sector engagement. It includes three sets of supporting conditions to promote movement along the continuum, going from networking to cooperation and then to collaboration.
The resulting model provides the knowledge base for assessing the strengths of a given school health partnership and for shedding light on which partnership areas would need to be further developed. Overall, this model offers any professional, from the field of public health, education, or mental health, a closer look at what would be required for a school health partnership to become truly collaborative and reach its maximum potential. It promises to inspire and guide school health partners in their pursuit of more meaningful engagement with one another toward greater improvements in the well-being of school-age children, in recognition of their shared responsibility.
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Rana, Suneira. "Role of the private sector in providing sanitation services to the poor in India." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98994.
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Thesis: S.M. in Management Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2015.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 49-52).
"Sanitation is more important than independence." - Mahatma Gandhi. Lack of sanitation causes nearly three million deaths around the world annually. This issue compounded by the negative economic impact of poor sanitation, costing developing countries billions of dollars a year. Despite decades of effort, provision of basic sanitation facilities still remains one of the largest global development challenges. In some countries, problems with public sector supply of sanitation services have led to increasing awareness that more participation of the non-state sector is needed in the provision of these services. On the other hand, sanitation enterprises comprise primarily of small players that struggle with high upfront capital costs required for toilet installation. Thus, owing to resource and capacity constraints, such enterprises will find it challenging to work alone in this area. One way to engage the private sector is to encourage partnerships with the government and community in developing creative new approaches and encouraging lasting services over the long term. To this end, the paper explores all activities involved in the sanitation sector and how different entities define and understand the sanitation value chain. In particular, it develops an understanding of the types of enterprises engaged in toilet construction and the methods of engagement. Next, it undertakes a global review of enterprise models in the sanitation sector and identifies key organizing principles for successful Public Private Community Partnerships (PPCPs) models. Selected elements from the global learnings are then modified to situate the learnings in Indian experiences. The key idea of this paper is not to prescribe any specific methods of functioning but to lay out different models and consequently generate new learnings for enterprise solutions to deliver on rural sanitation services in India. Lessons and findings from the paper reveal ideal ways to engage with the private sector - through Franchise Models, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Models, Community Models and Integrated Models. While enterprise solutions can bring scale, sustainability and innovation, the government plays an integral role through enabling policies and provision of local institutional platforms. The paper shows how strategic alliances through PPCPs would effectively tackle the problem through scalable business solutions.
by Suneira Rana.
S.M. in Management Research
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Rockwell, Stephen P. "Critical factors in the adoption and effective use of technology in the nonprofit sector." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39521.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2007.Includes bibliographical references.
This thesis seeks to determine the critical factors that influence the adoption and effective use of technologies within the nonprofit sector. The analysis places a particular emphasis on the role of funders who finance technology adoption and intermediaries who play the role of catalysts, enablers, and educators in the implementation of and subsequent innovation with technology. Through reviewing the limited academic literature, surveying industry leaders, and performing cross-organizational and cross-regional comparisons, the thesis details policy recommendations for building ecosystems that can help create tech-savvy nonprofits. These critical success factors include a supportive community of foundations, significant diversity of nonprofit and for profit intermediaries, and involvement of senior leadership of nonprofit organizations. While intermediaries play the linchpin role in the networked system, policy recommendations are provided that specify how all actors can contribute to the construction of ecosystems that facilitate adoption, shared learning and effective use of technology in the nonprofit sector.
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Koh, Jeongsuk. "Effectiveness, motives, and diffusion of joint-venture strategies : a study in the information technology sector." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/14266.
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Achoki, Tom Nyandega. "Data access, a driver of innovation in the biophanrmaceutical sector: a focus on rheumatoid arthritis." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117926.
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Thesis: M.B.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2018.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 64-69).
The World Health Organization recognizes health data and access to medicines as key ingredients for a well-functioning health system, alongside governance, human resources, infrastructure and financing. Considering the interaction and interdependencies across the various components of the health system, decision makers would need to focus on data trends from different sources within the healthcare system in order to draw instructive lessons to improve health. This is particularly true in the biopharmaceutical industry where safety, efficacy and effectiveness of medicines is a paramount consideration. Collaboration among different stakeholders to improve data access is vital in generating the much needed evidence to drive innovation across the healthcare system. Notably, the biopharmaceutical industry could leverage improved access to data to accelerate discovery of novel medicines, maximize the potential for clinical and commercial success of products and ensure improved access to effective. The shift towards value based care has seen increased demand for data, which has led to the emergence of different models for data access, ranging from data vendors to federations of multiple stakeholders, working jointly to improve the evidence base for decision making. In various settings, federated models, have particularly demonstrated useful attributes that are essential in promoting broader data access within the healthcare ecosystem. However, development of data access models should not be seen as a destination but as a process that is to be continually improved and adapted to meet the needs and demands of a rapidly changing healthcare landscape. Overall, this process should be intimately anchored on the primary objective of improving patient health.
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Arshad, Hafiz Muhammad. "An exploratory study of primary school teachers' perceptions of group work as a way of teaching English in public sector primary schools of Punjab." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2017. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/30945/.
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This study was designed to explore primary teachers’ perceptions of group work as a way of teaching English in public sector primary schools of Punjab. In particular, the study attempted to ascertain how primary teachers view group work, whether they think it may have benefits and/or drawbacks if implemented as a way of teaching English in the primary classroom and what are their perceived impediments to implementing it in public sector primary schools of Punjab To explore the aspects stated above, I adopted a mixed methods qualitative approach for the research. Twenty participants from eight primary schools of District Jhang were selected for data collection. The participants were given questionnaires and data collected from questionnaires provided a baseline to decide what to further investigate in the interviews. The questionnaire responses guided me to further investigate participants’ understanding of group work in terms of it as (1) a way of teaching English (2) the perceived benefits and/or drawbacks of implementing group work in primary English classroom, and (3) factors that may impede the implementation of group work as a way of teaching English. To analyse the data obtained by questionnaires and interviews, I adopted a hybrid deductive/inductive thematic analysis. The initial analysis of participants’ responses suggested that participants had a flawed understanding of group work. Participants’ responses further suggested that physical layout and teaching practices as perceived by the participants were traditional or teacher-centred and that current settings in primary schools were unlikely to support group work as a teaching methodology. The analysis also informed that participants perceived a number of factors in the current primary school settings which may not support group work as a way of teaching English in public sector primary schools of Punjab. These factors included conditions in primary school, poor supply of teaching resources, flawed teacher training, lack of teacher autonomy among others. Moreover, the analysis of participants’ responses suggested that primary teachers work in difficult conditions which do not encourage them to reflect on their teaching and adopt different ways of activity-based learning. During the later stages of thematic analysis, an underlying theme of professional identity began to unfold, which was found compelling due to its relationship with teachers’ apparent lack of interest in initiatives to try to change the current status of classroom layout and use various methodologies of teaching English in primary classroom. The emergence of this theme changed the focus of the thesis, as it was clear that lack of agency, confidence and autonomy were the key to the teachers’ reluctance to engage with new pedagogical practices. It is clear from the findings that for participants to feel enabled to adopt more activity-based methodologies such as group work, changes to their working conditions, better training opportunities and greater teacher autonomy in decision making, both collegiately and regarding pedagogy, are necessary. In addition, teachers’ poor perception of their professional roles and responsibilities needs to be enhanced through purposeful teacher training. If these changes are put in place, teachers may become more motivated and willing to try new approaches in their classrooms. However, after conducting this research, I consider that introducing such changes in the primary school settings in Pakistan would be a laborious, time-consuming and expensive process. In the present scenario, it would be necessary for the head teachers to provide teachers greater opportunities to reflect on their classroom practices and discuss issues with colleagues. In addition, primary schools could engage researchers and student-teachers from local universities and training colleges to work together with primary teachers to ensure that teachers have the chance to have a a broader sense of a variety of teaching approaches and how they may be implemented with support.
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Field, C. "Developing a discourse for CPD leadership in the secondary school sector in England." Thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2010. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/12162/.
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This study was founded upon an assumption that the discourses of leadership and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in England are different, and that leading CPD in England is complex and difficult to manage. The overall goal was first to develop a shared understanding of concepts of CPD leadership which underpin the complexity, and second to assist overcoming the confusion. Both the assumption and the stated goal emanate from the researcher’s own professional position. The researcher is professionally active in the field, as a provider of CPD, and also as a representative of the University sector. As chair of the Universities’ Council for the Education of Teachers (UCET) CPD committee, the researcher has lobbied for academically accredited CPD. This presupposes a respect for teachers’ criticality and a reflective approach to Government proposed policy. The work examines policies and practices of CPD since 2000. Significant organisations (e.g. General Teaching Council for England, Training and Development Agency for Schools, National College of Leadership for Schools and Children’s Services) have based their work on a number of concepts which have contributed to a confusion and complexity for leaders of CPD tasked with shaping practice. The initial literature review showed how concepts associated with CPD leadership are emerging, and that therefore any research could not be based upon a static focus. The study explored concepts of educational leadership, noting the emphasis on individual styles, behaviours and performance of leaders. This analysis contrasted with findings that CPD is more focussed on the collective effort of professionals. The study is based upon professionally focussed research. Findings varied according to different stakeholder groups’ attitudes and tacit understandings. The methodology adopted was essentially qualitative and consisted of approaches and techniques associated with phenomenology, action research and grounded theory. Although the term ‘discourse’ is frequently used, it is in the sense of ‘discourse analysis’, rather than of ‘discourse theory’. Outcomes of the work were the identification of four dimensions, which may be seen to drive CPD leadership, and which served to provide an underpinning framework to help the analysis of the research. The uncovering of nine variables, which determine the emphasis contained within different approaches to CPD, served as finer detail to aid CPD leaders. These perspectives were developed into a survey tool, and served as stimuli for interviews. Use of the survey and interviews provided data sets for close scrutiny, leading to a visual representation of different stakeholder perspectives, and indications of how and why each group differed from others. The findings also showed areas of agreement and shared understanding. The work ends with a consideration of how identifying the concepts and perspectives underpinning a CPD initiative can assist CPD leaders in shaping their behaviour and practice.
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Donnelly, Caitlin. "Governance and ethos : case studies from the primary school sector in Northern Ireland." Thesis, Ulster University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.245805.
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This thesis is a study of the relationship between school governance and school ethos in three primary schools of different management type in Northern Ireland (NI). It is primarily interested in the perceptions and experiences of governors and head teachers after the 1989 Education Reform (Northern Ireland) Order. A case study approach has been adopted which involved strategy has been employed, incorporating non-participant observation and semi-structured interviews. The t will be shown that ethos varies with school type and influences the operation of school boards of governors. Chapter One traces the historical developments which have led to the present education system in Northern Ireland. It also analyses the implications of the recent Education Reform (NI) Order 1989 for school governing bodies. Chapter Two contains a discussion of the religious and cultural differences which exist between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland and considers the extent to which these differences are reflected within the school system. The theoretical literature on culture, presented in Chapter Three, provides a conceptual framework around which the study is based. Whilst Chapter Four analyses the methodological issues raised in a qualitative study of this nature, Chapter Five presents an account of the actual research techniques employed. The evidence from the three case study sites is presented in Chapters Seven to Ten. In Chapter Eleven the conclusions to the thesis are presented where a new definition of ethos, based upon the evidence from each of the schools, is proposed. It is shown that the three schools 'studied, each representing a different management type, embody a particular and unique ethos which in tum affects the ways in which new policy and legislation is interpreted and implemented.
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Tampe, Maja. "(Trans)national rules and local performances : sustainability standards in the Cocoa Sector of Ghana, Ecuador, and Brazil." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109660.
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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2016.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Sustainability standards have been construed as potent solutions for agricultural producers in the Global South to solve major issues around poverty, inequality, bad labor and environmental conditions, and they have been spreading rapidly. Standards promise better livelihoods for producers through higher prices, farmer organization, and compliance with improved labor, environmental, and managerial practices. Yet actual improvements occur inconsistently. This dissertation examines this inconsistency by asking under what conditions and through what mechanisms sustainability standards improve livelihoods for producers in their labor and economic conditions. I find that producers, themselves, must make standards work and discover how to translate transnational rules into locally suitable practices. This process of discovery comprises two challenges: to upgrade by adding value to the adopting rural enterprise and to turn rules into practices. Overcoming these challenges is contingent on two conditions. First, adopters must integrate this process of discovery with a high-performance work system that mobilizes the skills and motivation of employees for productivity and quality gains. Second, adopters' learning depends on external reinforcement, positive through support for learning or negative through a threat of sanctions. The empirical material for this argument stems from a multi-method study of sustainability standards in the cocoa sector of Ghana, Ecuador, and Brazil. A five-year panel study from Ghana shows that, on average, livelihood improvements with standards are underwhelming. In Ecuador, my findings from comparing two certified farmer groups show that the path to better outcomes leads through upgrading, and not through standards by themselves. In Brazil, evidence from a participant-observation and interview-based study with cocoa plantations demonstrates that adopters must be able to proactively turn rules into on-the-ground behaviors. Theoretically, this dissertation contributes a practice and labor lens to transnational private governance research and, in doing so, theorizes relationships between adopters' practices, private standard implementation, and market and regulatory contexts. Empirically, I propose that mitigating the weaknesses of private governance cannot be solved by adding more public regulation or more governance from buyers. Instead, I recommend to support agricultural producers by complementing transnational rules with local communities of practice in order to speed up processes of upgrading and discovery.
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Brooks, Ryan C. "Exploring the Effects of School Context on Educational Outcomes: How Do Segregation and Sector Affect Educational Inequality in Elementary School?" The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1388419127.
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Bassetti, Paolo Felice 1964, and Gary Michael 1959 Romano. "Supply chains and value networks : the factors driving change and their implications to competition in the industrial sector." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29711.
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This thesis examines the concept of the value network and the roles of its principal actors, defined herein as (i) buyers, (ii) suppliers, and (iii) logistics providers. Our research considers the role of each actor in the context of the value network; however, we pay particular attention to the role of the logistics provider. Content for our research was gathered from literary sources and interviews with individuals in industry and academia having experience in or knowledge of supply chain management or logistics. We organized our research around multi-national companies having complex operations. This was based on our hypothesis that large companies, in their capacity as buyers, function as pull factors and dominant actors in supply chain systems. The companies that we selected operate in the aerospace, steel, and consumer products sectors. A principal purpose of our research was to critique the role of logistics providers from the perspective of their capacity to (i) connect actors across the supply chain and (ii) optimize the functionality of the resulting network or extended enterprise. In order to make such evaluations, we felt it was essential to understand the perspectives of customers, which caused us to define the principal actors of a value network and, ultimately, to adopt the view of the dominant actor (the buyer), as the vantage point for our analysis. Our research begins with an assessment of the broad issues framing the subject of supply chain management today, principally the factors of globalization, the internet, and value networks. We proceed by looking at the principal actors, giving particular attention to the needs of the buyer, in its capacity as customer. This is followed by a discussion of the value drivers influencing management thinking today and a proposed framework for establishing the foundational architecture of future network strategies. We conclude with a summary of our findings and an assessment of the role of the logistics provider.
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JINNO, Masatoshi. "The Difference in the Optimal Faculty-Student Ratio between Public Schools and Private Schools." 名古屋大学経済学会, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/10751.
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Sinilov, Nikolay. "Banking sector of the Russian Federation : study of the correlation between commodity prices and key safety, soundness and performance indicators." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59141.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2010.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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The purpose of this work is to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of banking system in Russia, and to understand its core dependencies and potential risks. The system, the way we find it now, has evolved though difficult transition from highly centralized and planned Soviet economy to government-sector dominated, commodity-focused market economy of today. Twenty years after Perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet Union, we find Russian version of "too big to fail" in majority control by the government of about 50% of assets of the banking sector through ownership in country's largest financial institutions. Large industrial and private banks that roamed the economy in the 90s all but disappeared, closed due to insolvency or absorbed by government banks. At the same time, close to 900 smaller private banks in the system together account for less than 7% of its total assets. Having reviewed the structure and key elements of the system, I continue with analysis of its concentrations and weaknesses. Here I focus on how Russia's dependence on commodity exports -specifically, oil industry - translates into strengths and weaknesses of the balance sheet of country's banking system and its leading banks. Currently, Russia is world's largest producer of crude oil. As much as 93% of Russian exports are commodity goods, primarily oil and gas (64% of total exports). As expected, we find returns of both government and private sectors highly dependent on oil exports. Little transparency exists regarding direct and indirect exposures of Russian banks to oil and gas industry clients and assets. However, this relationship can be observed indirectly by analyzing historical correlation between financial indicators and the oil price. Pooling data from multiple sources (IMF, Central Bank of Russia, BankScope, Bloomberg, S&P, etc.), I dedicate substantial part of this work to analyzing this relationship via correlation analysis of historical results and ratios. The analysis is organized in three tiers: stock market dependencies, aggregate industry results, and safety/ soundness indicators of the group of leading banks.
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Isaacs, Julien(Julien Dylan). "Digital expansionism : exploring the U.S.-China technology dynamic through cybersecurity policy and international marketing strategies in the Cloud Computing Sector." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122125.
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Thesis: S.M. in Management Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2019Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 86-94).
The U.S. and China remain largely separated from one another in terms of technological market access, with both sides implementing policy regimes serving as official or unofficial barriers to international trade, especially evident in data-sensitive industries, such as cloud computing. The result is a very low market share for American cloud computing providers in China, and vice-versa. This paper explores the U.S.-China dynamic insofar as government policy and action are concerned, the U.S. and China markets, and private enterprise's response and strategy in the cloud computing industry, which is notable not only given its value, $278.3 billion worldwide by 2021, but also its central position in the flow of global data.' The paper arrives at a number of conclusions. Firstly, given China's techno-nationalist policy regime, U.S. cloud computing firms, and by extension, all U.S. technology companies, will face increasingly limited market share and opportunity in China. Conversely, Chinese cloud computing providers, and by extension Chinese technology products, in general, may be able to successfully garner market share in the U.S. by offering innovative products with little to no substitutes, for which Americans will potentially waive their data privacy concerns in order to access (which may lead to unintended consequences). Lastly, the U.S. and China should work together to form, articulate and implement cybersecurity and data norms, enhancing international cooperation on a government and private enterprise level, effectively removing international trade barriers and promoting and enhancing market access. Cooperation, however, remains a challenge, given the differing policy objectives of the U.S. and China.
by Julien Isaacs.
S.M. in Management Studies
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Chen, Wen-ning Josephine. "Public sector reform in education : in what way is it reform /." [Hong Kong] : University of Hong Kong, 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13762199.
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Stokes, David Robin. "Small enterprise management in the public sector : the marketing of primary schools." Thesis, Kingston University, 1999. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/20639/.
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The purpose of this thesis is to understand the marketing perceptions and practices of primary school managers, in response to attempts to introduce market forces into the provision of UK state education. The study has investigated marketing in primary schools through ten longitudinal case studies using three main sources of data: interviews with headteachers, and governors, participant observation, and market research of the perceptions of parents and other groups. Two groups of influences combined to make diverse and complex marketing micro-environments, which conditioned the impact of marketing activities initiated by the schools: i) the local provision of primary education (the capacity, sector and status of schools, and the image of the locality), and ii) the population profile of the catchment area (numbers of local pupils, parental perceptions and population types). A picture of marketing at the case study schools emerged which was different from the initial impression of a peripheral activity given by much of the literature, and headteachers' own accounts. Critical incident analysis revealed more extensive strategies and tactics which could be labelled as “marketing”, but which were not necessarily described as such by headteachers. Events and decisions triggered marketing activities directed at a number of targets which can be grouped into the priority order of: i) internal relationships (existing parents, pupils, staff, and governors), ii) recruitment markets (new parents and feeder institutions), iii) educational agencies (LEA, DfEE, OFSTED etc.), and iv) community relationships (local media, commercial sponsors and community groups). Individuals within these target groups positioned a school according to their perceptions of its academic and environmental reputation, its locality and their degree of involvement with it. Headteachers attempted to improve their schools' market position through a mix of methods which can be summarised as four I's - information, image building, involvement, and the influence of word-of mouth communications. Headteachers found that the most effective marketing strategies had two main components: i) marketing to improve relationships with existing parents, staff and governors was an essential precursor to any external marketing effort; and ii) marketing to targets other than prospective pupils was important in order to build up a supportive series of relationships in the micro-environment. In particular, parental involvement strategies to achieve marketing aims evolved as an acceptable response because they were not seen as overtly competitive, and they had a perceived educational value. Headteachers seemed to share many of the marketing problems of owner-managers of small businesses. The findings reported here suggest that the private sector may have lessons to learn from the marketing management of small public organisations such as primary schools, so that a more meaningful exchange of information across the sectoral divide is indicated.
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Harman, Lee A. "A study of effective management development delivery systems utilized in selected private and public sector organizations." Virtual Press, 1988. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/535896.
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The purpose of the study was to compare and contrast current management development delivery systems in the public sector with the private sector. Data was gathered through on-site interviews with five private and five public sector organizations. The organizations were selected for the study with the help of expert panels. Panel members also assisted in refining the structured interview guide used to collect data.Data obtained by the interviews were analyzed using a binomial test for differences in proportion to determine significant differences between responses of the public sector and the private sector interviewees. Open ended questions were compared and reported in narrative form.Data collected support the following conclusions:1. The importance of involving individual participants in planning for management development programs has been shown.2. A number of practices endorsed by respondents and identified in the data may serve as components of a model for program implementation.3. The literature supports the need to correlate management development activitites to events-based, on-the-job activities.4. A weakness appears to exist in current management development programs in regard to the lack of use of personal recognition as an incentive.5. The literature cites the need to increase funds for future programming needs.6. Changes in salary/wage policies may need to occur.7. Ambiguous goals are a reason for the failure of many management development programs.8. Evaluation techniques are utilized to assess individual program offerings rather than to measure improvement in on-the-job performance.9. Raise in income is preferred as an incentive in the public sector.10. Promotion is preferred as an incentive in the private sector.11. Development programs are hindered by a perceived lack of available time.Department of Educational Administration and Supervision
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Abu-Baker, Mutaaya Sirajee. "Decentralization and quality assurance in the Ugandan primary education sector." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/57390.
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The study presented in this thesis is a case study analysis of decentralization and quality assurance in a decentralized set up of the Ugandan Primary Schooling. The research looked at how the monitoring and evaluation informed the policy formulation process to regulate quality assurance in a decentralized governance of primary education. The Study was positioned in the critical realist paradigm, interpretive in orientation and used both coding and thematic techniques to understand the teachers’, SMC members’, and officers’ (at district and ministry levels) experiences and perceptions of quality assurance in a decentralized set up. Data was gathered using interviews, document analysis and observation methods. The findings indicated that the study was affected by eleven themes: Management System and Leadership, Human Resource Management, Finance Administration and Management, Parenting and Nutrition, Politics, Motivation, Social Structures and Patterns, Legislative Process and Policies, Infrastructure Development and Management, Community Involvement in Education and Curriculum and Professionalism. The monitoring and evaluation system had a framework in which it operates, though there was no quality assurance policy to guide the provision of quality education. The study finally indicated that there are more threats in a decentralized set up that put Quality in danger. Secondly, there was absence of supervision/inspection in schools as there was no evidence to prove this due to absence of reports. However, document analysis indicated visits of officers to schools. Records management was a problem to schools. Decentralization was adopted at different levels by different countries to address specific problems identified in view of service delivery. Finally, though monitoring and evaluation results informed the policy and decision makers, there was no quality assurance policy to guide the provision of quality education in institutions.
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Ibáñez, López A. Santiago (Antonio Santiago). "Analysis and modeling of Spain's power sector in order to define the best incentive policies for achieving an optimum energy mix." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81066.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references.
The goal of this thesis is the development of a model of the Spanish energy mix in order to be able to forecast its evolution in function of exogenous variables such as the public opinion about specific technologies, the price of oil, the price of natural gas, the interest rate, etc. at a given moment in time. The development of such a model is interesting in order to set the right pOlicies and incentives for achieving a required energy mix as well as to calculate the system costs at a specific moment in time. This way, under or overinvestment in specific technologies can be avoided. This issue has been a cause of concern in Spain, where for example, because of erratic incentive policies a huge overinvestment in solar PV power happened between 2008 and 2009, which entailed higher than expected energy costs that will have to be paid by the final consumers for many years. So, a model of the power system has been developed using the System Dynamics methodology. The model has been subsequently validated using historical data in order to check that the results obtained by the model reflect the reality. Once validated, different future scenarios have been considered and the model has been used in order to define the energy policies that entail the optimum results in terms of the resulting energy mix and wholesale power price. Learnings and conclusions about the Spanish power market have been summarized.
by A. Santiago Ibáñez López.
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Williams, Gareth. "How has the independent sector responded to state school pay reforms? : a comparative case study." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2005. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/55406/.
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Two broad themes emerge from the study. The first relates to the character of 'independent' schools and raises some questions about their supposed autonomy. The second theme concerns the notion of 'new public management' and whether it is a concept appropriate for analysing change in practice in purported private sector institutions and whether private sector bodies can ever by subject to NPM measures.
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McCalla-Chen, Doreen. "Benign and malign definitions of conflictual power in school sector decision-making : theory and practice." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298810.
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ANDRADE, ALEXANDRA SIMOES. "IS ENGLISH AN ACCESSORY? INTERDISCIPLINARY PREJUDICE IN A PUBLIC SECTOR SCHOOL IN RIO DE JANEIRO." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2007. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=10130@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROEsta pesquisa tem como objetivo estudar as vozes dialógicas envolvidas no contexto de uma Escola Estadual do Rio de Janeiro em busca de traços que indiquem a existência de possível preconceito em relação ao ensino/aprendizagem de inglês como Língua Estrangeira. As noções de dialogismo, enunciado, polifonia e voz de Bakhtin ([1977] 2004; [1979] 2003) e de representação de (Bruner, 1996; Celani, 1984; Celani e Magalhães, 2002; Giroux, 1992) permeiam a análise dessas vozes. A investigação realizou-se através de notas de campo geradas dentro da escola pesquisada, de entrevista com uma das professoras de inglês da escola, da análise dos textos dos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais do 3º e 4º ciclos para Língua Estrangeira (PCN-LE; 1998) e da Reorientação Curricular realizada pela Secretaria de Estado de Educação do Rio de Janeiro (2005) buscando-se encontrar, neles ou através deles, vozes conflitantes, possivelmente geradoras de preconceito interdisciplinar na área pesquisada. Diante de um corredor de vozes formado a partir dos dados gerados, percebeu-se como o enunciado de uma voz reflete o enunciado de outra, assim como a voz da pesquisadora entrelaça-se às outras que ecoam simultaneamente. O confronto de todas as vozes ouvidas aponta um preconceito existente não apenas ao ensino/aprendizagem de língua inglesa na rede Estadual, mas à Língua Estrangeira em geral. As representações de professores encontradas nos Parâmetros, na Reorientação e na entrevista com a professora refletem a necessidade do professor de línguas em constituir-se como um profissional responsável por sua formação contínua. A ausência desta pode gerar, no universo escolar e naqueles que dele participam direta ou indiretamente, atitudes preconceituosas relacionadas ao ensino/aprendizagem de inglês como língua estrangeira na rede oficial.
This research aims to investigate the context of a public sector school in the city of Rio de Janeiro, in search of discursive traces that might point towards the possible existence of prejudice regarding the teaching/learning of English as a foreign language. The notions of dialogism, enunciation, polyphony, and voice proposed by Bakhtin ([1977] 2004; [1979] 2003) as well as the notion of representation (Bruner, 1996; Celani, 1984; Celani & Magalhães, 2002; Giroux, 1992) inform the analysis of the emerging conflicting voices, possibly generators of interdisciplinary prejudice in the institutional context. The investigation was carried out through field notes generated within the researched school, an interview with one of the school´s English teachers, and the analysis of the texts of the National Curriculum Parameters of the 3rd and 4th cycles for Foreign Languages (PCN-LE) as well as those of the Curriculum Reorientation developed by the Secretary of Education of the State of Rio de Janeiro (2005). Considering the generated data as an imaginary hall of voices, it is possible to realize how the enunciation of one voice reflects the enunciation of another, with the researcher´s voice intertwining with all the others that echo simultaneously. The confrontation of all these voices suggests that prejudice is not only related to the teaching/learning of English in the Public Sector, but also to Foreign Languages in general. The representations of teachers found in the Parameters, in the Reorientation and in the interview with the teacher reflect the necessity that the language teacher currently has of constituting him/herself as a professional who is responsible for his/her continuing academic development. The lack of involvement in such processes might result in prejudiced attitudes regarding the teaching/learning of English as a foreign language in the universe of the public sector school and in those who, directly or indirectly, are a part of it.
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Roberts, Lesley. "The challenges facing leaders and managers in the independent special school sector : a changing agenda." Thesis, University of Lincoln, 2008. http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/1844/.
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This study investigates the challenges facing leaders and managers of independent special schools during the period during when inclusion of SEN students in mainstream schools has been government policy. The challenges investigated centre around ascertaining the key role of these schools at this time, the general challenges they have faced, and the implications for them in the years ahead. This has included research on how independent special schools respond to external demands and expectations and how they balance these with their own internal imperatives. The research was carried out using an empirical phenomenological approach, with the objective of gathering qualitative data through the undertaking of interviews at both the micro and meso level of the organisational structures involved in SEN education. Participants were drawn from three approved independent special schools and three non-maintained special schools from the south east regions of England. Schools represented varying medical forms of SEN such as deafness, physical disabilities, severe learning difficulties and specific learning difficulties. Interviewees consisted of the headteacher, a deputy and classroom teacher from each school and the data was triangulated through documentation analysis using the participating schools’ recent OFSTED and CSCI reports as well as interviews with three SEN Caseworkers employed by three different LEA regions. The findings revealed that a key role for independent special schools is propping up a seemingly failing national strategy. Challenges arise from educational matters when internal visions of what good special education should mean are over-ridden by external ideologies. External accountability tends to suppress innovation and change within the school by making the change process unwieldy. External accountabilities are inclined to conflict when they encroach upon the professionalism of staff, yet complement internal interests by effecting motivation to question objectives more closely. Balancing internal/external accountabilities is no problem for these leaders and managers, because their internal imperatives will always come first. Implications for the years ahead will arise from the success or failure of the national inclusion strategy to accommodate a rising number of SEN students under limited state provision.