Thesis (D. Ed.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2003. / Supervisor: William Moore, Jr. Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Available also from UMI Company.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Indiana University of Pennsylvania. / Includes bibliographical references.

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Employing a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, I explore the experiences of eight individuals engaged differently with nonprofit accountability. The principal-Agent perspective provides the framework. My investigation is prompted by my dissatisfaction with portrayals of governments’ relationships with financially dependent nonprofits as being dysfunctional, and necessarily oppositional, dyads. Simultaneous calls for more collaboration and ever-greater accountability risk dislocating excessively stretched joints. Preserving the uniqueness of each actor’s depiction and interpretation of accountability, I hope to shed light on what is really going on as accountability is negotiated, mediated and enacted by implicated individuals, and suggest how we might improve performances if we pay more attention to performers’ pragmatic interpretations of accountability scripts. Participants’ considered improvisations may enlighten accountability’s audiences and its directors and script-writers.

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Employing a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, I explore the experiences of eight individuals engaged differently with nonprofit accountability. The principal-Agent perspective provides the framework. My investigation is prompted by my dissatisfaction with portrayals of governments’ relationships with financially dependent nonprofits as being dysfunctional, and necessarily oppositional, dyads. Simultaneous calls for more collaboration and ever-greater accountability risk dislocating excessively stretched joints. Preserving the uniqueness of each actor’s depiction and interpretation of accountability, I hope to shed light on what is really going on as accountability is negotiated, mediated and enacted by implicated individuals, and suggest how we might improve performances if we pay more attention to performers’ pragmatic interpretations of accountability scripts. Participants’ considered improvisations may enlighten accountability’s audiences and its directors and script-writers.

Målet med dette prosjektet har vært å undersøke hvordan ulike former for ansvar gjør seg gjeldende hos skoleledere underlagt forskjellige kommunale systemer. Dette er gjort med hjelp av en kvantitativ undersøkelse utført blant rektorer i to kommuner som benytter seg av styringssystemer som omtales som forskjellige. Prosjektet gir en teoretisk utdyping av det angloamerikanske begrepet accountability. Prosjektet tar utgangspunkt i en forståelse av accountability som et flerdimensjonalt begrep knyttet til hva slags aktører som stiller rektorene til ansvar. Det blir også utdypet hvordan og hvilke verktøy man kan bruke for å oppnå økt accountability i skolen. Undersøkelsen viser flere forskjeller i rektorenes oppfatning av skoleeiers styringssystem og resultatene tyder på at rektors ansvarsfølelse blir påvirket av skoleeiers styringssystem

Thesis (Ph.D.(Public Affairs))--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Abstract in English. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1982. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 135-139).

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of North Texas, Dec., 2008. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.