The SAGE Handbook of School Organization provides a substantial review of the history, current status and future prospects of the field of school organization. Bringing together chapters exploring key issues, important debates and points of tension, the Handbook highlights school and system organisational structure, processes and dynamics coupled with insights into important theoretical foundations from diverse perspectives.

Chapter 1: Introduction to the handbook - Michael Connolly, David Eddy-Spicer, Chris James & Sharon KrusePart 1: Schools as organizationsChapter 2: Organizations, organizing, and schools: Accessing Theoretical Tools and Models in Organization Theory - Bob L. Johnson Jr.Chapter 3: Historical Perspectives on Schools as Organizations - Daniel L. DukePart 2: The leadership, management and governance of schools as organizationsChapter 4: Conceptions of the leadership and management of schools as organizations - Tony BushChapter 5: Managing the School Organization - Stephen L. JacobsonChapter 6: Competing Narratives of Leadership in Schools: The Institutional and Discursive Turns in Organizational Theory - Gary L. Anderson& Ethan ChangChapter 7: Governing and Governance of Schools as Organizations - Catherine FarrellPart 3: Theoretical perspectives on schools as organizationsChapter 8: Structural perspectives on schools as organizations - Scott C. Bauer & S. David BrazerChapter 9: Too Legit to Quit: Institutional Perspectives on the Study of Schools as Organizations - Ebony N. Bridwell-MitchellChapter 10: School Organisation: Authority, Status and the Role of Love as an Integrative Power - Philip A. WoodsChapter 11: Organizational Culture in Schools: A Review of Widely Misunderstood Concept - Michael Connolly & Sharon D. KruseChapter 12: Inter-Organizational Networks in Education - Priscilla Wohlstetter & Angela Gargaro Lyle Chapter 13: Feelings, moods, and emotion in schools: Affective perspectives - Izhak Berkovich & Ori EyalChapter 14: Boundary perspectives on schools as organizations - David H. Eddy-Spicer & Chris JamesChapter 15: Systems Thinking in School Organization - Chen Schechter & Haim ShakedChapter 16: The Interactional Nature of Schools as Social Organizations: Three Theoretical Perspectives - Peter Sleegers, Nienke Moolenaar & Alan J. DalyChapter 17: School Effectiveness and School Organization - Jaap ScheerensChapter 18: Inequality in Education: What Educators Can and Cannot Change - Kathleen LynchChapter 19: Theorising schools as organisations from a feminist perspective - Jill BlackmoreChapter 20: Queer theory perspectives on schools as organizations - Katherine Cumings MansfieldPart 4: Organizing in SchoolsChapter 21: Organizing in schools: A matter of trust - Megan Tschannen-MoranChapter 22: Understanding schools as organisations and the role of organised teachers: Perspectives on teachers' work and teacher unions - Howard StevensonChapter 23: Schools as organizations: Accountability concerns - Melanie EhrenChapter 24: Organizational performance metrics for schools - Daniel MuijsChapter 25: National and transnational influences on school organization - Chen Yong Tan & Clive DimmockChapter 26: Decision-making and the school organization - Stephanie Chitpin & Colin W. EversChapter 27: Lesson Study: Curriculum Management for 21st Century Skills - Eric C.K. Cheng & John Chi-kin LeeChapter 28: Beyond Ritualized Rationality: Organizational Dynamics of Instructionally-Focused Continuous Improvement - Donald J. Peurach, William R. Penuel & Jennifer Lin RussellChapter 29: Parental Involvement in Schools as Organizations: Examining Consistent Benefits, Persistent Challenges, and Emerging Issues - Julie W. Dallavis & Mark BerendsChapter 30: Assembling schools as organisations: On the limits and contradictions of neoliberalism - Andrew WilkinsChapter 31: The digital age: Exploring the relationship between technology and schools organization - Vincent Cho, Virginia Snodgrass Rangel, Anna NobleChapter 32: School-to-School Collaboration: Building collective capacity through collaborative enquiry - Christopher ChapmanChapter 33: Achieving Education for All: Organizational Issues in African Primary Schools - Daniel N. SifunaChapter 34: The School Building as Organizational Agent: Leveraging Physical Learning Environments to Advance the Educational Enterprise - Pamela Woolner and Cynthia L. UlinePart 5: Researching schools as organizationsChapter 35: Defining Schools as Social Spaces: A Social Network Approach to Researching Schools as Organizations - Joelle Rodway & Alan J. DalyChapter 36: Research use in schools: Theory and Evidence - A framework for understanding research use in school-level decision making - Alice Huguet, Lok-Sze Wong, Christopher W. Harrison, Cynthia E. Coburn, & James P. SpillaneChapter 37: Practitioner research in schools as organizations - Andrew TownsendChapter 38: Critical issues for the study of school improvement: Contributions from a research program in Chile - Cristian Bellei, Liliana Morawietz, Juan Pablo Valenzuela & Xavier VannChapter 39: Design-Based School Improvement and Research for Education Leaders - Rick Mintrop, Elizabeth Zumpe, & Mahua Baral Chapter 40: Summary and reflections - Michael Connolly, David H. Eddy-Spicer, Chris James & Sharon Kruse