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(1997) Systems for sustainability, Dordrecht, Springer.
The notion of organizational learning is a popular theme in the evaluation literature (Van der Knaap, 1995; Owen and Lambert, 1995). Whilst, traditionally, this work has been based on a rational-objectivist view, Van der Knaap has recently documented a paradigm shift in evaluation to argumentative-subjectivism. In the light of a discussion of self-producing systems, the argument will be advanced that the shift to argumentative-subjectivism will not promote the effectiveness of evaluation practice. Following a summary review of Stacey's (1992, 1996) work on chaos and creativity, it will be proposed that the roles of "evaluator as judge", as per rational-objectivism, and "evaluator as critic", as per argumentative-subjectivism, are redundant.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-0265-8_38
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Gregory, A. (1997)., The contribution of evaluation to organizational learning, in F. A. Stowell, R. Ison, R. Armson, J. Holloway & S. Jackson (eds.), Systems for sustainability, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 221-226.
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