Unpacking Black Boxes: Mechanisms and Theory Building in Evaluation

By B. Astbury, Frans Leeuw. 2010

828 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Management Science and Operations Research, Public Administration

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In Information Systems and Management

1. Horst Treiblmaier
2. Banjo Roxas

In Management Science and Operations Research

1. Trisha Greenhalgh
2. R. Hunter
3. Horst Treiblmaier
4. Kevin Harris
5. M. Beattie
6. T. Gorely

In Public Administration

1. Horst Treiblmaier

Citations in the corpus

• RAMESES II reporting standards for realist evaluations (2016, background): “Within or across the data sources the analysis will need to identify recurrent patterns of CMO configurations [47].”
• RAMESES publication standards: realist syntheses (2013, neutral): “underlying entities, processes, or [social] structures which operate in particular contexts to generate outcomes of interest” [9].”
• Realist review (2021, background): “Although the precise details and contexts of an intervention may change over different domains, applying MRTs to evaluating similar programmes negates the need to start a review from scratch and, by extension, stops the ‘constant reinvention of the wheel’ (Astbury & Leeuw, 2010, p. 374).”
• The impact of the blockchain on the supply chain: a theory-based research framework and a call for action (2018, background): “As opposed to general theorizing, middle-range theories are more speci fi c regarding the fi eld, of analysis and focus on a better understanding of why, how and when speci fi c outcomes occur (Astbury and Leeuw, 2010).”