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Conclusion 3.5
The following four chapters apply these ideas in four quite different institutional and social
contexts. Some ideas crop up regularly, like the use of the basic system or network idea.
Others underpin the studies without being mentioned explicitly, like the definition of impact
and other key terms. Dimensions of impact, mentioned earlier, crop up during the analysis of
findings, when impacts inevitably find themselves falling into a number of categories.
Finally, Chapter 8 reviews our implementation of these ideas and makes practical recommendations
for organisations who want to assess their own impact.