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A Dialectic Perspective on Problem Identification and Construction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Roni Reiter-Palmon*
Affiliation:
University of Nebraska at Omaha
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E-mail: rreiter-palmon@unomaha.edu, Address: Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE 68182

Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2009 

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