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Candle Problem

MBS Functional Fixedness

Management Basics: Living Abroad and Functional Fixedness

Prof. Dr. Christopher Weilage January 27, 2017

The other day at the home supply store, while being perplexed with wood plank sizes (yes, I know both metric and imperial systems) and how to solve some new home problems, I began to wonder […]

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Authors

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    Prof. Dr. Christopher Weilage

    published 60 articles

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    Prof. Dr. Christian Schmidkonz

    published 43 articles

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    Prof. Dr. Hans H. Jung

    published 50 articles

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    Prof. Dr. Gabriella Maráz

    published 34 articles

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    Prof. Dr. Arnd Albrecht

    published 29 articles

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    Prof. Dr. Marc-Michael Bergfeld

    published 24 articles

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    Prof. Dr. Heiko Seif

    published 23 articles

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    Prof. Dr. Patricia Kraft

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    Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Zirus

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