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April 3, 2023
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At the crossroad of performativity and the market: schools' logics of action under a hybrid accountability regime

Publicated to: Compare-A Journal Of Comparative And International Education. 54 (7): 1116-1136 - 2024-10-02 54(7), DOI: 10.1080/03057925.2023.2175316

Authors:

Pagès, M; Ferrer-Esteban, G; Verger, A; Prieto, M
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Affiliations

Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Dept Sociol, Barcelona, Spain - Author
Univ Autonoma Madrid, Dept Pedag, Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Girona, Dept Pedag, Girona, Spain - Author
Univ Oberta Catalunya, Psychol & Educ Sci Studies, Barcelona, Spain - Author
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Abstract

School systems are shifting towards forms of post-bureaucratic governance (PBG), implying higher levels of school autonomy, choice, and performance-based management. Under this governance approach, which combines forms of administrative and market accountability, schools face greater levels of competition and external pressure to perform. Schools experience such pressures unevenly and address them through different responses. The paper develops a mixed-methods case study conducted in Madrid, a Spanish region where PBG reform has intensified in the last decades, and proposes a novel index to position schools within their reference local education markets. The results show that schools articulate a broad range of logics of action, largely interrelated with their position in the education marketplace. We also show that schools' responses to external pressures are dynamic and marked by tensions of a different nature, which schools need to navigate, often without sufficient support from public authorities.
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Keywords

EconomicsIncentivesLocal education marketsLogics of actionMadridPost-bureaucratic governanceSchool accountabilitySchool autonomySpain

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Compare-A Journal of Comparative and International Education due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2024 there are still no calculated indicators, but in 2023, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Education.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-04-06:

  • WoS: 4
  • Scopus: 3
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-06:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 51.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 51 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 3.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 3 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://repositorio.uam.es/handle/10486/715321
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: Last Author (PRIETO EGIDO, MIRIAM).

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Awards linked to the item

This work was supported by the European Research Council under Grant 680172 (Reformed Project).
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