| What do we know about school-based management? A case study of the literature—A call for research B Malen, RT Ogawa, J Kranz Choice and control in American education 2, 289-342, 1990 | 806 | 1990 |
| Professional-patron influence on site-based governance councils: A confounding case study B Malen, RT Ogawa Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 10 (4), 251-270, 1988 | 481 | 1988 |
| Towards rigor in reviews of multivocal literatures: Applying the exploratory case study method RT Ogawa, B Malen Review of educational research 61 (3), 265-286, 1991 | 416 | 1991 |
| 9. The micropolitics of education: mapping the multiple dimensions of power relations in school polities B Malen Journal of Education Policy 9 (5), 147-167, 1994 | 305 | 1994 |
| Reconstituting schools:“Testing” the “theory of action” B Malen, R Croninger, D Muncey, D Redmond-Jones Educational evaluation and policy analysis 24 (2), 113-132, 2002 | 246 | 2002 |
| Revisiting policy implementation as a political phenomenon B Malen New directions in education policy implementation, 83-104, 2006 | 178 | 2006 |
| Unfulfilled Promises. B Malen School Administrator 47 (2), 1990 | 170 | 1990 |
| A framework for assessing the impact of education reforms on school capacity: Insights from studies of high-stakes accountability initiatives B Malen, JK Rice Educational Policy 18 (5), 631-660, 2004 | 164 | 2004 |
| Rethinking the multiple perspectives approach to education policy analysis: implications for policy‐practice connections B Malen, M Knapp Journal of Education Policy 12 (5), 419-445, 1997 | 141 | 1997 |
| The human costs of education reform: The case of school reconstitution JK Rice, B Malen Educational Administration Quarterly 39 (5), 635-666, 2003 | 132 | 2003 |
| Beyond pluralistic patterns of power: Research on the micropolitics of schools B Malen, MV Cochran, A Sobrin Handbook of education politics and policy, 3-36, 2014 | 128 | 2014 |
| Enacting site-based management: A political utilities analysis B Malen Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 16 (3), 249-267, 1994 | 120 | 1994 |
| Tightening the grip? The impact of state activism on local school systems B Malen Educational Policy 17 (2), 195-216, 2003 | 110 | 2003 |
| Career ladder reform: A multi-level analysis of initial efforts B Malen, AW Hart Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 9 (1), 9-23, 1987 | 75 | 1987 |
| The promises and perils of participation on site‐based councils B Malen Theory into Practice 38 (4), 209-216, 1999 | 67 | 1999 |
| On rewards, punishments, and possibilities: Teacher compensation as an instrument for education reform B Malen Journal of personnel evaluation in education 12, 387-394, 1999 | 67 | 1999 |
| Restructuring teacher compensation systems: An analysis of three incentive strategies B Malen, MJ Murphy, AW Hart Attracting and compensating America’s teachers, 91-141, 1987 | 63 | 1987 |
| The politics of curriculum and testing SH Fuhrman, B Malen, Politics of Education Association (No Title), 1991 | 59 | 1991 |
| Generating interest in interest groups B Malen Educational Policy 15 (1), 168-186, 2001 | 57 | 2001 |
| School reconstitution as an education reform strategy JK Rice, B Malen Washington, DC: National Education Association, 2010 | 53 | 2010 |
