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Professional versus generic retail services: new insights

Jeanne Hill, C.; Motes, William H. - In: Journal of Services Marketing 9 (1995) 2, pp. 22-35

identifying strategically useful distinctions between consumer external search and evaluation activities for professional versus … generic retail services. Examines the advisability of assuming that what occurs relative to the search and evaluation of …

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The contribution of marketing to school-based program evaluation

Page, Bill; Sharp, Anne - In: Journal of Social Marketing 2 (2012) 3, pp. 176-186

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline the contribution of marketing to program evaluation in the school … illustrate, through a sector-wide program case study, how marketing metrics can improve overall program evaluation. Existing … school-based program evaluations are often not accompanied by rigorous evaluation of their impact beyond educational outcomes …

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A cost-benefit analysis for alcohol in South Africa for the year 2019

Barr, Graham D. I. - In: South African journal of economic and management sciences 27 (2024) 1, pp. 1-11

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Reinventing foreign aid

Easterly, William (ed.) - 2008

in the Evaluation of Development Effectiveness -- 4 It Pays to Be Ignorant: A Simple Political Economy of Rigorous … Program Evaluation -- 5 Solutions When the Solution Is the Problem: Arraying the Disarray in Development -- 6 Donors and …

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Assessing the learning organization: part 1 ‐ theoretical foundations

Smith, Peter A.C.; Tosey, Paul - In: The Learning Organization 6 (1999) 2, pp. 70-75

Asserts and explores the claim that further headway in substantive wide‐scale learning organization development is seriously jeopardised unless individual organizations objectively measure their progress. In part 1, a new evaluative standpoint grounded in “new science” is suggested, and...

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Assessing the learning organization: part 2 – exploring practical assessment approaches

Tosey, Paul; Smith, Peter A.C. - In: The Learning Organization 6 (1999) 3, pp. 107-116

Asserts and explores the claim that further headway in substantive wide‐scale learning organization development is seriously jeopardised unless individual organizations objectively measure their progress. In part 1 a new evaluative standpoint grounded in “New Science” is suggested, and...

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Transformative evaluation: organisational learning through participative practice

Cooper, Sue - In: The Learning Organization 21 (2014) 2, pp. 146-157

Purpose – This research paper presents an innovative evaluation methodology which was developed as part of a doctoral … methodology synthesises aspects of appreciative inquiry, participatory evaluation and transformative learning and engages the …-structured interviews prior and post implementation of the transformative evaluation methodology. Findings – Drawing on thematic analysis of …

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Using developmental evaluation methods with communities of practice

van Winkelen, Christine - In: The Learning Organization 23 (2016) 2/3, pp. 141-155

Purpose This paper aims to explore the use of developmental evaluation methods with community of practice programmes … use of a number of developmental evaluation methods was explored in three organizations over a nine-month period using an … The developmental evaluation activities achieved the objectives of the knowledge managers concerned: they developed a …

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IS team projects: IS professionals rate six criteria for assessing effectiveness

Jiang, James J.; Motwani, Jaideep; Margulis, Stephen T. - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 3 (1997) 4, pp. 236-243

In order to capitalize on the various technical and behavioural skills needed for a project, system development activities frequently are performed by teams. By surveying 239 information systems (IS) professionals, reports how IS managers, project leaders, and system analysts evaluate the...

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Empowerment and team development

Hut, Jacqueline; Molleman, Eric - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 4 (1998) 2, pp. 53-66

Based on the four principles of self‐organization formulated by Morgan (1986), a four‐stage implementation model for empowering teams was developed. From the first to the last stage, the attention shifts from routine tasks to non‐routine tasks, from the individual to the group, and from...

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