The Organizational Economics of School Chains
We use the insights of the organizational economics of firms to study the organization of school chains. We match information on decentralization of activities for approximately 400 chains and 2,000 schools in England to student- and school-level administrative records. Chains with a larger share of schools whose leadership background is aligned with the chain expertise, younger chains, and chains close to the productivity frontier decentralize more. We also investigate the link between chain decentralization and average school performance – and find no significant association. This is consistent with the intuition that chains choose their organization in ways that maximize output (i.e., students’ learning), so the equilibrium relationship between performance and organizational set-up is flat. However, this finding masks important heterogeneities, with weaker schools within chains losing out from decentralization
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[2023]
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Authors: | Silva, Olmo ; Neri, Lorenzo ; Pasini, Elisabetta |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
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