Editor’s introduction – Institutional analysis of educational organizations : lines of theory and directions for research / Brian Rowan – A National data base for organization : a proposal for including data from economic theories of organization / Patrick F. Galvin and James E. Barott – School restructuring : responding to external environments / Ellen B. Goldring – On leadership, school restructuring and democracy in America / Robert O. Slater – Institutional theory and the politics of institutionalization : logics of action in school reform / Samuel B. Bacharach, W. Frank Masters and Bryan Mundell – The institutionalization of public schools: the decline of legitimating myths and the politics of organizational instability / James G. Cibulka – Creativity and innovation in schools / Peter Bamberger – Decentralization and school reform : a demand perspective / Jane Hannaway – Improving school quality through school-based management : a theoretical model of the process of change / Peter J. Robertson.