1st Edition
From Studies to Streams Managing Evaluative Systems
Edited By Nicoletta Stame
Copyright 2006
316 Pages
by
Routledge
316 Pages
by
Routledge
316 Pages
by
Routledge
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Recent developments in policy evaluation have focused on new notions of process and use or, notably, "influence." But this debate among evaluators on how evaluations are used has been essentially a closed one—evaluators talking only among themselves. The debate has gone on seemingly oblivious to fundamental changes in the intellectual landscape of public management, organizational theory,... Read more
1: Channelled Streams of Evaluative Knowledge; 1: The “E” in Monitoring and Evaluation— Using Evaluative Knowledge to Support a Results-Based Management System; 2: How Evaluation Can Help Make Knowledge Management Real; 2: Information Systems at Work for Evaluation; 3: Management of Evaluative Knowledge in National Health: Some Comparative Observations; 4: Organizing Knowledge; 5: Managing Evaluations in the Netherlands and Types of Knowledge; 6: Implementing Results-Based Management; 3: Thematic Evaluations and Their Uses; 7: Complex Policies and Evaluative Streams of Knowledge; 8: Evaluating Knowledge about the Instruments of Government: The Canadian Federal Experience; 9: Why Evaluations Sometimes Can’t be Used— and Why They Shouldn’t; 4: Strategic Budgeting and Streams of Knowledge; 10: Evaluation Use and Information Communication Technology; 11: Evaluative Information in the Norwegian Ministries; 12: Evaluation Knowledge for Strategic Budgeting; 5: Multi-Study Evaluation and the Learning Organization; 13: Evaluation, Knowledge Management, and Learning: Caught between Order and Disorder; 14: Patterns of Evaluative Knowledge Creation and Utilization within the World Bank; Postscript; Conclusion
Biography
Nicoletta Stame
