Creativity in eastern and western civilizations: The lessons of historiometry

Management and Organization Review

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 329-350

  Simonton, Dean Keith ^a   Ting, Shing Shiang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Civilizations; Creativity; Generalizations; Historiometry; Zeitgeist

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049359818     PISSN: 17408776     EISSN: 17408784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8784.2010.00188.x     Document Type: Article

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