Strategic narrative in multi-academy trusts in England: Principal drivers for expansion
Strategic narrative in multi-academy trusts in England: Principal drivers for expansion
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英国多学院信托基金的战略叙述：扩张的主要驱动力
DOI：
10.1002/berj.3550
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Baxter J
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作者：
Baxter J
多学院信托（MAT）现在是英语教育领域的一个共同特征。然而，许多引人注目的失败表明，它们在领导和治理方面提出了重大挑战。最锻炼学校领导和董事会的领域之一是为MAT设定战略方向。这包括其扩展等要素。本文借鉴了30个访谈学校领导和受托人从6个MAT和10个访谈国家领导人的治理，寻找回应的研究问题：什么是战略扩张的主要驱动力在MAT？本文首先根据最近的政策背景下的研究，然后移动到考虑为什么选择的战略理论作为叙事优先于其他战略方法，以及它是如何被用来分析数据。文章的结论是，在这个样本中，有一些MAT扩展的驱动因素，这些因素分为六大类：机会，价值观，压力，情感，风险和资源。它还得出结论，资源和业务可行性发挥了很大的一部分，在决定扩大，战略似乎是一个迭代的学习过程。因此，它有助于多层次组织的治理理论，并在教育部对MAT增长的关注方面进行实践。
Multi‐academy trusts (MATs) are now a common feature of the English educational landscape. Yet numerous high‐profile failures indicate that they present substantial challenges in terms of leadership and governance. One of the areas that most exercises school leaders and boards is the setting of strategic direction for the MAT. This includes elements such as its expansion. This article draws on 30 interviews with school leaders and trustees from 6 MATs and 10 interviews with national leaders of governance in looking to respond to the research question: What are the principal drivers for strategic expansion in MATs? The article begins by contextualising the research in light of recent policy, then moves to consider why theory on strategy as narrative was chosen in preference to other strategic approaches, and how it was employed to analyse data. The article concludes that within this sample there are a number of drivers for MAT expansion and that these fall under six principal categories: opportunities, values, pressures, feelings, risks and resources. It also concludes that resources and business viability play a substantial part in decisions to expand, and that strategy appears to be an iterative learning process. As such, it contributes to theory on the governance of multi‐level organisations and to practice in terms of the Department for Education's focus on MAT growth.