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Wallas’ Four-Stage Model of the Creative Process: More Than Meets the Eye?

Eugene Sadler-SmithSurrey Business School, University of Surrey, Guildford, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 342-352 | Published online: 13 Nov 2015

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