Many of the methodology textbooks that business and management students are
encouraged to use employ a simple and, in our view, flawed dichotomy between objectivist …

Background Despite the increasing popularity of the theory of change (ToC) approach, little
is known about the extent to which ToC has been used in the design and evaluation of …

Context is a key concept in developing realist causal explanations but its conceptualisation
has received comparatively less attention. We conducted a review to explore how context is …

Pourquoi les projets de développement, les interventions des ONG ou les politiques
publiques nationales sont-ils tous soumis à d'importants écarts entre ce qui était prévu et ce …

Background Realist evaluation is increasingly used in health services and other fields of
research and evaluation. No previous standards exist for reporting realist evaluations. This …

In recent years, a new frame for innovation policy has emerged, namely “transformative
innovation policy”(TIP), which aims at addressing transformative change or “Grand …

Pawson and Tilley suggest a unique strategy for conducting qualitative interviews within
realist evaluation studies. Theories are placed before the interviewee for them to comment …

Background The idea that underlying, generative mechanisms give rise to causal
regularities has become a guiding principle across many social and natural science …

Realist evaluations are increasingly used in the study of complex health interventions. The
methodological procedures applied within realist evaluations however are often inexplicit …

A debate has arisen out of the need to understand true intervention outcomes in the social
sciences. Traditionally, the randomized, controlled trial that answers the question of 'what …