Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/111690 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Schumpeter Discussion Papers No. 2015-003
Publisher: 
University of Wuppertal, Schumpeter School of Business and Economics, Wuppertal
Abstract: 
Concepts of new school governance did considerably change the role and responsibilities of school principals. Due to the shift in their role from administrator to manager, recent research tends to focus on management activity, but little is still known about the interrelation between changing contexts and management activities. In the present paper we propose to expand the school context to embrace the school-related environment, and we examine this broader context with respect to its impact on leadership activities. We illustrate our approach by combining German survey and administrative data to analyze the social composition of schools and their environment. Our results suggest that using administrative data to identify objective challenges to leadership improves the measurement of contextual conditions at school.
Subjects: 
school leadership
school quality
disadvantaged areas
JEL: 
I20
I21
I28
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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