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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

  • Christopher Weilage Portrait
    Prof. Dr. Christopher Weilage

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  • MBS Prof. Dr. Christian Schmidkonz
    Prof. Dr. Christian Schmidkonz

    published 11 articles

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    Prof. Dr. Hans H. Jung

    published 14 articles

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    Prof. Dr. Marc-Michael Bergfeld

    published 11 articles

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    Prof. Dr. Gabriella Maráz

    published 8 articles

  • MBS Prof. Dr. Arnd Albrecht
    Prof. Dr. Arnd Albrecht

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    Prof. Dr. Heiko Seif

    published 5 articles

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    Prof. Dr. Todd Davey

    published 4 articles

  • MBS Prof. Dr. Barbara Scheck
    Prof. Dr. Barbara Scheck

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  • MBS Prof. Dr. Gottfried Schäffner
    Prof. Dr. Gottfried J. Schäffner

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