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The Evaluation Marketplace and Its Industry
Author(s) -
Nielsen Steffen Bohni,
Lemire Sebastian,
Christie Christina A.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
new directions for evaluation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.374
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1534-875X
pISSN - 1097-6736
DOI - 10.1002/ev.20344
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , set (abstract data type) , management science , computer science , foundation (evidence) , special section , evaluation methods , conceptual framework , sociology , engineering , political science , paleontology , social science , engineering physics , law , reliability engineering , biology , programming language
The present chapter provides the conceptual foundation on which the remainder of this special issue is grounded. First, the chapter considers the idea of an evaluation marketplace and reflects on the limited attention awarded to the commercial aspects of evaluation. Second, the scarce—yet significant—literature on the evaluation market and industry is considered, identifying three distinct strands of contributions: the evaluation market composition, market dynamics, and strategies for navigating these. In the third section, the chapter offers working definitions of the evaluation market and evaluation services as well as presents the evaluation market framework, an emerging framework for better understanding the central components of the evaluation marketplace, including its context, composition, and dynamics. A brief set of concluding notes brings the chapter to a close.