... policy informants at both senior and middle management levels. The relevant people interviewed for this research were: Paul Greenbank can be contacted at: greenbap@edgehill.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Case studies Higher education Educational administration Social...

... partnerships. Design/methodology/approach A case study of a partnership of an inner‐city high school and university doctoral action research was explored in the frameworks of mutuality, social capital, and appreciative inquiry. The theoretical perspective of appreciative inquiry served as the basis...

... Publishing Limited 2006 Case studies Academic staff Professional associations Professional culture is a recurring topic of interest to education scholars, but many practitioners eschew what seems like non‐productive and irrelevant academic musings from those in the ivory tower (Sykes, 1999...

... 2005 Earthquakes Natural disasters Principals Turkey Case studies At 3.01 am, on August 17, 1999 an earthquake registering 7.4 on the Richter scale hit the northwest part of Turkey, centering on the cities of İzmit, Adapazarı, and Istanbul. This earthquake caused deaths of more than...

... was developed to start an introduction to the admission process and the role of information technology in the process. The basis for the case study was then developed by introducing Miami University and the background of its admission department regarding the implementation of information technology...

... the current situation facing the school. This case study helps to highlight the importance and positive effects behind capacity building and shared leadership. It is argued that this case study can serve as an example to establish higher education and school partnerships and the introduction of a school‐based...

...Paul Brown The research adopts a case study approach (in higher education) to investigate how strategic capabilities might be developed in an organisation through strategic management development (SMD). SMD is defined as “Management development interventions which are intended to enhance...

...Liam Heaney Presents a case study that probes the process of leading professional development in a specific educational setting, namely, a primary school, and offers a critical analysis of the process over an eight‐ to ten‐month period. Hopes that the approaches used and the lessons learned...

...Michael Weedall Organizational innovation is a difficult process. Most innovations fail. If an innovation fails there is a high probability the organization will be fractured. It is easy to break apart an organization. It is much more difficult to build it back up. This is a case study...

... observations and prescriptions for the boarding school may be helpful to other organizations that may be facing similar decline in their environments. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Organizational performance Effectiveness Strategy Schools Case studies MHA’s mission statement is: to prepare...

... and disadvantages and how to establish them. It also describes a specific case study at the University of Colorado at Denver as a model for such consulternships. © MCB UP Limited 2001 For the protection of both parties it is necessary to have attorneys (or the university’s office of sponsored research...

...Jeryl Whitelock This article describes an approach to teaching international marketing which won an award for innovation under the Council for Industry and Higher Education Partnership Awards scheme. The approach uses a combination of case study analysis, student presentations (based on their work...