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Cocreated program logic (COP)

Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz, Anne Richter and Henna Hasson

Aim and justification for the cocreated program logic

In order to design, implement, and evaluate organizational interventions, theories of change are needed – that is, theories that outline why a certain intervention activity would be expected to have an effect on a specific distal outcome (Blamey & Mackenzie, 2007). Yet, overall, these types of theories are seldom used in organizational interventions (Biron & Karanika-Murray, 2013; Nielsen, 2013). This stands in contrast to the abundance of theories like the job demand resources (JDR) model and the effort reward imbalance model (e.g., Demerouti et al., 2001; Siegrist, ...

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