Since the first half of the 1990s Austrian schools have seen subsequent waves of reform which were organized around concepts such as “school autonomy, leadership and school-based (quality) management”. In a series of projects we have examined the changes in the governance in and between schools which took place in the wake of these policies: We claimed that the traditional “bureaucratic-professional double regulation” of schooling (Maroy & van Zanten) was not fully replaced by a new version of governance (e.g. by New Public Management) but rather transformed into an even more hybrid mode of regulation in which “competition and market observation” played a prominent role. Firstly, the paper proposed will explain the characteristics of the hybrid mode of regulation. It will, secondly, reconstruct the logics of action (or in Ehren’s et al. (2005) words: the “programme theory“) of a new system of team inspection which has been recently introduced in the Austrian province of Styria. Thirdly, it will ask how this programme theory of inspection will fit or interfere with the present hybrid governance regime and it will propose some hypotheses about tensions to be expected in the implementation of new inspection systems under these circumstances.