Budgetary reforms: Survival strategies and the structuration of organizational fields in education

Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 733-755

  Edwards, Pamela ^a   Ezzamel, Mahmoud ^b   Robson, Keith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Budgetary control; Educational innovation; Educational planning and administration; Schools; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844602861     PISSN: 09513574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09513570510627694     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Alt, J.E. and Shepsle, K.A. (1990), Perspectives on Positive Political Economy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
2. Audit Commission (1988), "Delegation of management authority to schools", Occasional Paper, No. 5, Audit Commission, London, June.
3. Audit Commission (1999), Held in Trust - The LEA of the Future, HMSO, London.
4. Ball, S.J. (1994), Education Reform: A Critical and Post-Structural Approach, Open University Press, Buckingham.
5. Barley, S.R. and Tolbert, P.S. (1997), "Institutionalization and structuration: studying the links between action and institution", Organization Studies, Vol. 18 No. 1, pp. 93-117.
6. Beck, U. (1992), Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity, Sage, London.
7. Bourdieu, P. (1986), "The forms of capital, translated Richard Nice", in Richardson, J.G. (Ed.), Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, Chapter 9.
8. Broadbent, J. and Laughlin, R. (1998), "Resisting the 'new public management': absorption and absorbing groups in schools and GP practices in the UK", Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 11 No. 4, pp. 403-32.
9. Broadbent, J. and Laughlin, R. (2003), "Public private partnerships: an introduction", Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 16 No. 3, pp. 332-42.
10. Broadbent, J., Jacobs, K. and Laughlin, R. (1999), "Comparing schools in the UK and New Zealand: individualizing and socializing accountabilities and some implications for management control", Management Accounting Research, Vol. 10 No. 4, pp. 339-61.
11. Dacin, M.T., Goodstein, J. and Scott, W.R. (2002), "Institutional theory and institutional change: introduction to the special research forum", Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 45 No. 1, pp. 45-57.
12. Deem, R. and Brehony, K. (1993), "Consumers and education professionals in the organization and administration of schools: partnership or conflict?", Educational Studies, Vol. 19 No. 3, pp. 339-55.
13. DiMaggio, P.J. (1983), "State expansion and organizational fields", in Hall, R.H. and Quinn, R.E. (Eds), Organizational Theory and Public Policy, Sage Publications, Beverly Hills, CA.
14. DiMaggio, P.J. (1991), "Social structure, institutions, and cultural goods: the case of the United States", in Bourdieu, P. and Coleman, J.S. (Eds), Social Theory for a Changing Society, Russell Sage Foundation, Westview Press, New York, NY.
15. DiMaggio, P.J. and Powell, W.W. (1991), "The iron cage revisited: institutional isomorphism and collective rationality", in Powell, W.W. and DiMaggio, P.J. (Eds), The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL (originally published in American Sociological Review, Vol 38, April 1983, pp. 147-60).
16. Downs, A. (1967), Inside Bureaucracy, Little Brown, Boston, MA.
17. Edwards, P., Ezzamel, M. and Robson, K. (1999), "Connecting accounting and education in the UK: discourses and rationalities of education reform", Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Vol. 10, pp. 469-500.
18. Edwards, P., Ezzamel, M. and Robson, K. (2001), "Budgetary control and institutional reform: constructing the accountable school", Financial Accountability and Management.
19. Fligstein, N. (1997), "Social skill and institutional theory (action in institutions)", American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 40 No. 4, p. 397.
20. Garfinkel, H. (1967), Studies in Ethnomethodology, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
21. Giddens, A. (1973), The Class Structure of the Advanced Societies, Harper & Row, New York, NY.
22. Giddens, A. (1979), Central Problems in Social Theory: Action, Structure and Contradiction in Society, Macmillan, London.
23. Giddens, A. (1984), The Constitution of Society, Polity, Cambridge.
24. Granovetter, M. (1985), "Economic action and social structure: the problem of embeddedness", American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 91 No. 3, pp. 481-510.
25. Greenwood, R. and Hinings, C.R. (1996), "Understanding radical organizational change: bringing together the old and new institutionalism", Academy of Management Review, Vol. 21 No. 4, pp. 1022-54.
26. Greenwood, R., Suddaby, R. and Hinings, C.R. (2002), "Theorizing change: the role of professional associations in the transformation of institutionalized fields", Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 45 No. 1, pp. 58-80.
27. Hensmans, M. (2003), "Social movement organizations: a metaphor for strategic actors in institutional fields", Organization Studies, Vol. 24 No. 3, p. 355.
28. Hirsch, P.M. (1997), "Institutions and organizations: theory and research", American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 102 No. 6, pp. 1702-23.
29. Hirsch, P.M. and Lounsbury, M. (1997), "Ending the family quarrel: towards a reconciliation of old and new institutionalisms", American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 40 No. 4, pp. 406-18.
30. HMSO (1988), Education Reform Act (1988), HMSO, London.
31. Lauder, H. (1991), "Education, democracy, and the economy", in Halsey, A.H., Lauder, H., Brown, P. and Stuart Wells, A. (Eds), Education, Culture, Economy, and Society, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 382-92.
32. Levaçic, R. (1993), "Assessing the impact of formula funding on schools", Oxford Review of Education, Vol. 19 No. 4, pp. 435-57.
33. Lounsbury, M. and Ventresca, M. (2002), "Social structure and organizations revisited", Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 19, pp. 3-36.
34. Lounsbury, M. and Ventresca, M. (2003), "The new structuralism in organizational theory", Organization, Vol. 10 No. 3, pp. 457-80.
35. Mackinnon, D., Statham, J. and Hales, M. (1995), Education in the UK: Facts and Figures, Hodder & Stoughton, London.
36. Meyer, J.W. (1983), "On the celebration of rationality: some comments on Boland and Pondy", Accounting, Organizations and Society, Vol. 8 Nos 2/3, pp. 234-40.
37. Meyer, J.W. (1986), "Social environments and organizational accounting", Accounting, Organizations and Society, Vol. 11 Nos 4/5, pp. 345-56.
38. Olssen, M. and Matthews, M.K. (Eds) (1995), "Education, democracy and reform: an introduction", Education, Democracy and Reform, New Zealand Association for Research in Education/Research Unit for Maori Education, University of Auckland, Auckland.
39. Perrow, C. (1986), Complex Organizations, Macmillan, London.
40. Powell, W.W. (1991), "Expanding the scope of institutional analysis", in Powell, W.W. and DiMaggio, P.J. (Eds), The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.
41. Scott, W.R. (1991), "Unpacking institutional arguments", in Powell, W.W. and DiMaggio, P.J. (Eds), The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.
42. Scott, W.R. (1995), Institutions and Organizations, Sage, London.
43. Shearn, D., Broadbent, J., Laughlin, R. and Willig-Atherton, H. (1995), "The changing face of school governor responsibilities: a mismatch between government intention and actuality?", School Organization, Vol. 15 No. 2, pp. 175-88.
44. Torrance, H. (1997), "Assessment, accountability, and standards: using assessment to control the reform of schooling", in Halsey, A.H., Lauder, H., Brown, P. and Stuart Wells, A. (Eds), Education, Culture, Economy, and Society, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 321-31.
45. Wacquant, L.J.D. (1992), "Toward a social praxeology: the structure and logic of Bourdieu's sociology", in Bourdieu, P. and Wacquant, L.J.D. (Eds), An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford.
46. Wallace, A. (1990), Schools Out, Adam Smith Institute, London.
47. Warwick, D.P. (1975), A Theory of Public Bureaucracy, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
48. Whitty, G. (1999), "Marketization, the state, and the re-formation of the teaching profession", in Halsey, A.H., Lauder, H., Brown, P. and Stuart Wells, A. (Eds), Education, Culture, Economy, and Society, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 299-319.
49. Zald, M.N. (1990), "History, sociology and theories in organization", in Jackson, J.J. (Ed.), Institutions in American Society: Essays in Market, Political and Social Organizations, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, pp. 81-108.
50. Ball, S.J. (1993), "Education policy, power relations and teachers' work", British Journal of Educational Studies, Vol. 41 No. 2, pp. 106-21.
51. Department for Education and Employment (1998), Fair Funding: Improving Delegation to Schools, HMSO, London.
52. (The) Economist (1998), "Surplus places in England and Wales", The Economist, 7 March.
53. HMSO (1980), Education Act (1980), HMSO, London.
54. HMSO (1988), Education Act (No. 2) (1988), HMSO, London.
55. HMSO (1998), Schools Standards and Framework Act (1998), HMSO, London.