
BIO
Denise M. Rousseau is the H.J. Heinz II University Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon. She is Academic Board President, Center for Evidence-Based Management, and Co-Chair, Campbell Collaboration, Management and Business Coordinating Group (MBCG). Rousseau’s research focuses upon the impact workers have on the employment relationship and the firms that employ them. Her publications include over a dozen books and over 230 articles and monographs in management and psychology journals. Rousseau is a two-time winner of the Academy of Management’s Terry Award for best management book for I-Deals: Idiosyncratic Deals Workers Bargain for Themselvesin 2006 and Psychological Contracts in Organizations: Understanding Written and Unwritten Agreementin 1995.
She has served as President of the Academy of Management and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Organizational Behavior. Rousseau received her A.B., M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Rousseau founded the Evidence-Based Management Collaborative, a network of scholars, consultants, and practicing managers to promote evidence-informed organizational practices and decision making. Her book Evidence-based Management: How to Use Evidence to Make Better Organizational Decisions with Eric Barends (Kogan Page) is also available for teachers and students in the on-line course in EBMgt at www.cmu.edu/oli.
Preliminary title
Evidence-Based Management is a Community Practice
Annotation
20 years after the emergence of EBMgt as a scholarly, educational, and practice domain, research on its implementation shows that it is more than just a skill set individual practitioners develop. Instead, EMgt practitioners rely on their social resources. Networks, ties to universities, and the differential skills of colleagues come together to help EMgt practiioners use multiple sources of evidence in their problem solving and decisions. I will share lessons from research on EBMgt implementation and company practice to help support more effective EBMgt practice and education.