Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to synthesize findings from five systematic reviews of
research on principal leadership in East Asia contained in this special issue. The goal is to …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to synthesize findings from studies of principal
instructional leadership conducted in five East Asian societies. The authors first identify …

This bibliometric review of research sought to document and compare trends in educational
leadership and management (EDLM) knowledge production from the emerging regions of …

This paper examines the notion of instructional leadership. The paper opens with a review of
current work on school leadership, arguing that more inclusive, differentiated, holistic and …

Just a decade ago a book that focused on culture and educational management would have
belonged in the domain of social-anthropologists. Cross-cultural analysis was simply …

Distributed leadership is one of the most prominent contemporary leadership theories in
education. Its attraction in education is perhaps due to its potential to bring about school …

Research reviews contribute to understanding the evolution and trends of studies and guide
future studies. Since no science mapping was provided to reveal the citation patterns and …

We have selected irony as the organizing concept of this book because it offers a link
between our five main concerns. Our first concern is to bring to the fore a perspective on …

Conflict may occur in any organization (and hence school) and, for schools, conflict
management style is a joint activity and the degree of its effectiveness determines the type of …

Leadership, Capacity Building and School Improvement provides a fresh and original
perspective on the most important issues confronting today's practitioners and academics in …