Explaining School Cohesion: What Shapes the Organizational Beliefs of Teachers?

Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony

1977 • 25,202 citations

The Social System

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Educational Organizations as Loosely Coupled Systems

1976 • 6,884 citations

Organizations: Rational, Natural, and Open Systems

1988 • 5,481 citations

The External Control of Organizations.

1978 • 5,226 citations

Ambiguity and Choice in Organizations.

1977 • 2,898 citations

Fifteen Thousand Hours: Secondary Schools and Their Effects on Children

1980 • 2,369 citations

The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education

1976 • 1,285 citations

Foundations of the Theory of Organization

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The Instructional Management Role of the Principal

1982 • 880 citations

The Uniqueness Paradox in Organizational Stories

1983 • 730 citations

School Social Systems and Student Achievement: Schools Can Make a Difference

1979 • 650 citations

On What Is Learned in School

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School Effects on Pupil Progress: Research Findings and Policy Implications

1983 • 456 citations

The man in the principal's office;: An ethnography

1973 • 427 citations

Organizational Structure and the Institutional Environment: The Case of Public Schools

1982 • 338 citations

On phenomenology and social relations : selected writings

1970 • 286 citations

Types of Organizational Control and Their Relationship to Emotional Well Being

1978 • 244 citations

Talk as the Work: The Accomplishment of School Administration

1983 • 242 citations

School District Organization and Student Achievement

1975 • 218 citations

Search for Effective Schools: The Identification and Analysis of City Schools Schools That Are Instructionally Effective for Poor Children.

1977 • 153 citations

Legislated Learning: The Bureaucratization of the American Classroom

1980 • 151 citations

Organizational Properties from Aggregate Data: Separating Individual and Structural Effects

1980 • 134 citations

Stability in Interoganizational Exchanges: Rulemaking Processes of the Chicago Board of Trade

1982 • 121 citations

The Organizational Context of Individual Efficacy

1982 • 111 citations

Reading, Writing, and Resistance.

1984 • 70 citations

Worlds Apart: Relationships Between Families And Schools

1978 • 51 citations

Coordination and Control of Instruction in Schools

1980 • 49 citations

Going to the Well: School District Administrative Intensity and Environmental Constraint

1979 • 39 citations

Organizational Control in Educational Systems: A Case Study of Governance in Schools.

1978 • 33 citations

Voluntarism and Governance in Education

1982 • 30 citations

The Theories of Talcott Parsons: The Social Relations of Action.

1982 • 25 citations

Perception of Community Dissatisfaction and School Organizational Structures

1983 • 6 citations

Polity and Competence: Can the State Change Teachers’ Skills?

1985 • 1 citations