Title: The added value of transnational cooperation: Towards a new framework for evaluating learning and policy change
Abstract: Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgements Many thanks to Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Charlotte Halpern, Stefanie Dühr and Joao Mourato for commenting on draft versions of this article and for pointing out relevant conceptual tools and references. Thanks to my former colleagues in the INTERREG IIIB NWE Programme for our initial discussions on the topic of INTERREG evaluation, in particular Philippe Doucet and his ideas on the ‘intensity of cooperation’, Monica Tanaka, Paul Stephenson and Daniel von Hugo. Thanks to John Zetter and the SAUL project partners in Frankfurt/Main for information related to the impact of the SAUL project. Notes 1. In political science and organizational theory, isomorphism describes ‘the mechanisms leading one unit in a population to resemble other units facing the same set of environmental conditions’ (Radaelli, 2000 Radaelli, C. 2000. Policy transfer in the European Union: Institutional isomorphism as a source of legitimacy. Governance, 13(1): 25–43. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], p. 40). DiMaggio and Powell (1983 DiMaggio, P. J. and Powell, W. 1983. The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields. American Sociological Review, 48(2): 147–160. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) have analysed why organizations in a given field tend to become increasingly similar or homogeneous, and distinguish three analytical forms of ‘isomorphism’: ‘1) coercive isomorphism that stems from political influence and the problem of legitimacy; 2) mimetic isomorphism resulting from standard responses to uncertainty; and 3) normative isomorphism, associated with professionalization’ (p. 150).
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-08-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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