Applications of organizational psychology: Learning through failure or failure to learn?

Historical Perspectives in Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 331-352

  Highhouse, Scott ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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