Outsource Versus In-House?

An Identification of Organizational Conditions Influencing the Choice for Internal or External Evaluators

Authors

  • Valérie Pattyn University of Leuven, Public Management Institute, Belgium
  • Marleen Brans University of Leuven, Public Management Institute, Belgium

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3138/cjpe.28.003

Abstract

An evaluation can be conducted in-house or can be outsourced to an external party. Yet organizations do not always have full discretion to decide on the locus for evaluation implementation. Certain attributes often push the organization in one direction or another. Via a systematic pairwise comparison of attributes of 18 organizations in the Flemish (Belgian) public sector, we were able to indicate the conditions that matter most in determining the locus of policy evaluation implementation. Our findings can thus enrich existing guidelines on the advantages and disadvantages of internal and external evaluations.

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Published

2013-11-21

How to Cite

Pattyn, V., & Brans, M. (2013). Outsource Versus In-House? An Identification of Organizational Conditions Influencing the Choice for Internal or External Evaluators. Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 28(2), 43–63. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjpe.28.003

Issue

Vol. 28 No. 2 (2013): Fall

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Copyright (c) 2013 Valérie Pattyn, Marleen Brans

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