The role of errors in the creative and innovative process

Errors in Organizations

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 67-96

  Hammond, Michelle M ^a   Farr, James L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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