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The interrelations among seemingly unrelated aspects of human activities such as business practice, aesthetics, science, politics and religion can be understood by means of analysis of epistemological meta-types called "mindscapes" This relational understanding is needed for dealing with today's urgent problems of international planning frictions, multi-cultural management frictions, and disorientation and incorrect actions in the changing international economic environment The transition from the classificational thinking to the relational and contextual thinking requires new mindscapes

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Dynamics among Business Practice,Aesthetics,Science,Politics and Religion

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