Research into the School as an Organization. II: The School as a Complex Organization |
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| Authors: | Gunnar Berg Erik Wallin |
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| Institution: | Gunnar Berg, Lecturer, and Erik Wallin, Professor, both at the Department of Education , University of Uppsala, Sweden. , P.O.Box 2109, S‐750 02 Uppsala |
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| Abstract: | Berg, G. & Wallin, E. 1982. Research into the School as an Organization. II: The School as a Complex Organization. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research 26, 161‐181. This article starts by examining the development of general organization theory, then proposes an overall organization model for analysing the school. A distinction is made between the school as an institution and the school as an organization, the latter defined as a function of the control emanating from the societal and the ‘actor’ level. A set of conceptual tools believed to describe and analyse the school as an organization is outlined. In the latter part of the article an illustration of how the theoretical discussion can be applied to practical situations is given, firstly by an analysis of a case study and secondly by giving examples of factors worth taking into account in concrete analyses of the organizational structures of schools. |
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