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Verner Denvall

Verner Denvall

Researcher

Verner Denvall

Knocking on heaven's door: The evaluation community goes to church

Author

  • Verner Denvall
  • Stig Linde

Summary, in English

Ideas and concepts about evaluation travel around the globe. Studies of how evaluation models are disseminated, diffused and implemented are important. In this article, we examine an organization

with a history of traditions and legitimacy and a successful audit of its own and how it responds to modern concepts of administration where evaluation plays an important role. Based on an analytical framework from organizational theory, we show how an evaluation model has been either adopted, rejected or transformed depending on the local context and consider why central policies have had limited success in its implementation. This article should contribute to a better understanding of the transformation that evaluation undergoes in the journey between and within organizations.

Department/s

  • School of Social Work

Publishing year

2013

Language

English

Pages

431-441

Publication/Series

Evaluation

Volume

19

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Topic

  • Social Work

Keywords

  • church
  • dissemination
  • TQM
  • translation
  • use of evaluation
  • Kyrkans Q

Status

Published

Research group

  • Organisation och organisering

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1356-3890