# Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Gordon Liu. It was first published in June 2020.

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Figure 1: PictureLux / The Hollywood Archive / Alamy Stock Photo

Figure 2, 4: Danique Van Kasteren / www.betahaus.com

Figure 5: The movement from Bureaucratic control to cultural control: Adapted from Ray, CA. (1986) 'Corporate culture: the last frontier of control', Journal of Management Studies, 23(3). John Wiley and Sons

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Figure 11: Derived from Ballantyne (2000b)

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Figure 18: Kipp Teague / NASA

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