Sociocognitive Responses to Institutional Pressures: Reform in NYC Public Schools Stephen J' Mezias,

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Sociocognitive Responses to Institutional
Pressures Reform in NYC Public SchoolsStephen
J. Mezias, Ebony Bridwell-Mitchell, Theresa Lant
- New York UniversityRay Reagans - Carnegie
Mellon

• The aim modeling the social and cognitive
  dynamics that result in varying responses to
  institutional pressures and predict potentials
  for radical organizational change
• The premise structure content of
  sociocognitive network ? negotiated
  understandings ? responsiveness to pressures
• The study 7 NYC schools that vary in
  institutional freedom and performance history - 3
  years of surveys, observations, interviews
• Early findings
• the role of the professional community for norm
  setting, psycho-social rewards, response
  certainty, risk premiums
• the bandwidth of social exchange the
  multiplexity of social ties
• size, expectations, resources, human capital,
  trust and monitoring.