Outsource versus in-house. An identification of the organizational conditions influencing the choice for internal or external evaluators

Pattyn, V.; Brans, M. (2013)

Article / Letter to editor

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.

• policy evaluation
• Boolean methods
• Belgium
• Flanders
• evaluation capacity

• All authors: Pattyn, V.; Brans, M.
• Date: 2013
• Journal: The Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 43 - 63