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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
Ryan Fehr*
Affiliation:
University of Maryland
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E-mail: rfehr@psyc.umd.edu, Address: Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, 1147 Biology-Psychology Building, College Park, MD 20742
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , September 2009 , pp. 344 - 348
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2009 

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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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