October, 2019 - Blue Marble Evaluation

Organizations working together: Coordination in interorganizational networks

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By Catherine Alter and Jerald Hage Publisher: Sage Organizational cooperation, collaboration and networking are increasingly being seen as the most effective ways of achieving goals. In this volume, the authors describe the various kinds of organizational collaborations currently taking place in the public and private sectors, and the influence these experiments have on […]

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Dealing with complexity in development evaluation: a practical approach

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By Bamberger, M., Vaessen, J., Raimondo E. Publisher: Sage Recognizing that complexity calls for innovative, conceptual, and methodological solutions, this unique book offers practical guidance to policymakers, managers, and evaluation practitioners on how to design and implement complexity-responsive evaluations that can be undertaken in the real world of time, budget, data, and political constraints. Introductory chapters

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Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

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By Naseim Nicholas Taleb Published by Penguin Random House, 2018 Taleb challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility. In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world, succeed in a

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Globalization and Culture

Leave a Comment / Books / admin / October 25, 2019 / Globalization, Principle 1: Global Thinking, Principle 2: Anthropocene as Context, Principle 5: Transboundary Engagement, Principle 6: GLOCAL

By Jan Nederveen Pieterse Published by Rowman & Littlefield (2019) Now updated with new chapters on culture and on populism, this seminal text disputes the view that we are experiencing a “clash of civilizations” as well as the idea that globalization leads to cultural homogenization. Instead, Jan Nederveen Pieterse argues that we are witnessing the

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Wicked Solutions: A systems approach to complex problems

Leave a Comment / Books / admin / October 25, 2019 / Complexity., Principle 5: Transboundary Engagement, Principle 7: Cross-Silos, Systems Thinking

By Bob Williams and Sjon van ‘t Hof 2014 Wicked problems are complex, ill-structured, human problem situations. This book will help you design an inquiry and intervention in such messy, wicked situations. Access e-book.

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How far dare an evaluator go toward saving the world?

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By Bob Stake American Journal of Evaluation – Volume: 25 issue: 1, page(s): 103-107 – Sage (2004) In this article, Bob Stake explores the idea of skin in the game and asserts that no two evaluators would likely produce the exact same evaluation design and report. He then suggests a new standard for the field

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Slave labor in the amazon has been linked to suppliers of Lowe’s and Walmart

Leave a Comment / Articles / admin / October 25, 2019 / Human Rights, Principle 4: Integration, Principle 5: Transboundary Engagement, Principle 6: GLOCAL

By André Campos Pacific Standard, 2017 “Products derived from timber extracted by workers living in conditions analogous to slave labor in Brazil are connected to a complex business network linked to the United States market— possibly reaching the shelves of large retailers and being used in renovation of landmarks — according to a new investigation conducted by Brazilian

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The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human influenced age.

Leave a Comment / Articles / admin / October 25, 2019 / Principle 2: Anthropocene as Context

By Damian Carrington The Guardian 2016 Experts say human impact on Earth so profound that Holocene must give way to epoch defined by nuclear tests, plastic pollution and domesticated chicken. In this article, the author describes how the current epoch recently became known as the Anthropocene.

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A systems view of life: a unifying vision

Leave a Comment / Books / admin / October 20, 2019 / Principle 1: Global Thinking, Principle 4: Transboundary Engagement

By F. Capra and L. Luisi (2014) Publisher: Cambridge University Press This volume integrates the ideas, models, and theories underlying the systems view of life into a single coherent framework. Taking a broad sweep through history and across scientific disciplines, the authors examine the appearance of key concepts such as autopoiesis, dissipative structures, social networks,

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October 2019