What is it about?
How do you evaluate enterprise policy when you only have access to non-experimental data? This research delivers findings - using theory-based evaluation methodology - on the contribution of the multiple factors influencing a result. It also shows whether the implicit theory of change (ToC) for the policy under evaluation makes the expected contribution to the observed result and in what way.
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Why is it important?
There are significant lessons for policy evaluators in late-developing states and in regions with policy autonomy in the enterprise domain. Ireland is utilised as the country case study in the research and this is the first empirical study published using theory-based evaluation methodology (Contribution Analysis).
Perspectives
A public interest perspective is taken in the paper. The author is primarily interested in the development of 'evidence-based' policy in the enterprise domain and this can only be furthered by the use of rigorous evaluation methodologies.
Dr Anthony Paul Buckley
Dublin Institute of Technology
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This page is a summary of: Using Contribution Analysis to evaluate small & medium enterprise support policy, Evaluation, April 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1356389016638625.
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