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Making the abstract concrete: A case for structured abstracts in organizational sciences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2024

Sydney Marie Roux  and
Vanessa Burke
Sydney Marie Roux*
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA
Vanessa Burke
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA
*
Corresponding author: Sydney Marie Roux; Email: [email protected]
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , December 2024 , pp. 443 - 448
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

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