ERIC Number: EJ986254
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Jan
Pages: 46
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Managing Educational Champions: Entrepreneurship in Schools
Eyal, Ori; Yosef-Hassidim, Doron
Journal of School Leadership, v22 n1 p210-255 Jan 2012
This study explores how educational champions--teachers who initiate unsolicited innovation--construct their entrepreneurial endeavors while interacting with principals' management styles and how that interaction influences the sustainability of teachers' initiatives. Through semistructured interviews (N = 71) and analysis anchored in grounded theory, champions revealed three entrepreneurship strategies: semiautonomous entrepreneurship while interacting with a facilitative managerial style, loosely coupled entrepreneurship with directive management, and sponsored entrepreneurship with consolidative management. Analyses of these entrepreneurial endeavors illuminate teachers' strategies for negotiating the ongoing tension between autonomy and control in schools and their influence on the sustainability of champions' innovations. (Contains 2 tables and 5 notes.)
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Entrepreneurship, Sustainability, Semi Structured Interviews, Innovation, Principals, Educational Administration, Educational Change, Leadership, Change Agents, Employees, Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Interviews, Secondary School Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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