id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt sn009w06n0k Andrew D. Hoyt Sensemaking and Organizational Change at a Locally Elite High School 2022 .txt text/plain 204 5 6 The locally elite independent school is defined as an ideal type, and its legitimating idea and organizational form create the conditions for the appropriation of resources by organizational actors and also for overlapping identities that blur the boundaries between work and personal roles, especially in the boarding school setting. Comparing the predictions of market and institutional theories for reform initiatives, this dissertation finds that a school leader crafts a legitimacy project using both selective isomorphism and market elements, but also that actors in the institutional environment add legitimacy to new reforms while demand-side forces from organizational stakeholders constrain innovation. cache/sn009w06n0k.txt txt/sn009w06n0k.txt