Dr Geraint, johnes is Senior
Lecturer in Economics in the
Management School at the University
of Lancaster. In this paper he
presents an analysis of the impact of
different levels of school autonomy on
costs across the USA which suggests
that it is possible to identify an
optimal (cost minimising) level of
devolution of decision-making
authority. Academic performance, on
the other hand, appears not to be
affected by such organisational
variables.
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