This first issue of 2012 comes at a time when the economy of Europe is still in turmoil and the presidential election contest is heating up in the United States. Both venues raise critical policy issues and concerns in which nonprofit organizations play a central part.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the benefits, obstacles and challenges in implementing the balanced scorecard (BSC) in non‐higher education public schools, more specifically, in a Portuguese school district. Design/methodology/approach – An action research approach...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the degree to which Kouzes and Posner's Transformational Leadership Model is being practised by Jordanian school principals. Currently, there are both internally and externally increasing pressures on Jordanian schools to enact reform. The...

Purpose The problem of choosing the utmost useful features from hundreds of features from time-series user click data arises in online advertising toward fraudulent publisher's classification. Selecting feature subsets is a key issue in such classification tasks. Practically, the use of filter...