The contingent effect of governance on organizational performance school boards in Dutch primary education

The present paper tests the effects of governance structure on organizational performance. While most studies in public management are concerned with the impact of different types of managerial behavior on organizational performance, the context of the governance structure is mostly neglected. The Dutch institutional context is distinctly different from the U.S. context and characterized by schools clustered in boards with specific governance characteristics: legal form, denomination, multiplicity, and size. We propose that school boards’ governance structures have a contingent impact on schoo... Mehr ...