Acknowledgements
This free course was written by Laurie Knell. It was first published in March 2021.
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Figure 1: adapted: Barends, E., Rousseau, D. and Briner, R. (2018) ‘Evidence-based management: the basic principles’, Fig 1.1, p. 5 in Barends, E. and Rousseau, D. (eds.) Evidence-based management: how to use evidence to make better organizational decisions. London
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