Why organizations (do not) evaluate? Explaining evaluation activity through the lens of configurational comparative methods

Evaluation

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 348-367

  Pattyn, Valérie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

configurational comparative methods; evaluation activity; evaluation capacity building; Flanders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907209328     PISSN: 13563890     EISSN: 14617153     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1356389014540564     Document Type: Article

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