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Why Innovation Demands Aren't as Conflicted as They Seem: Stochasticism and the Creative Process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Ryan Fehr*
Affiliation:
University of Maryland
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E-mail: [email protected], Address: Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, 1147 Biology-Psychology Building, College Park, MD 20742

Abstract

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Commentaries
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2009 

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Footnotes

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Special thanks to Michele J. Gelfand, Paul Hanges, Gary Shteynberg, Lauren Minacapelli, and Laura Severance for their helpful comments on an earlier draft of this commentary.

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