The implementation of the BSC, in its full potential, requires the educational community members to invest many hours of work. Since these members have to perform other functions, namely the teaching component of teachers’ work, and given that schools have no autonomy to distribute the workload of teachers according to their real needs, there are few available hours to perform other activities. The lack of autonomy of schools is also found in the allocation of management positions or teaching compensations and incentives. In this regard, Interviewee 14 asserts: “not much depends on the local organizational structure; it depends on the Ministry's structure, the city council. We are talking about human resources. Possibly, we don’t have many gains here because we don’t have that autonomy that maybe we should have”. From the above, it appears that school management boards have a diminished capacity to implement the BSC as they cannot decide autonomously about these areas (G). This finding empirically supports the conclusions of Storey (2002) stating that the lack of time and resources can be an obstacle. However, the issue of lack of autonomy seems to be an additional constraint in the Portuguese educational context.