Management training - are business schools out of touch with their market?

Journal of European Industrial Training

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 3-10

  Sargeant, Adrian ^a   Angus Matheson, Robin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business schools; Employers; Management development; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642584958     PISSN: 03090590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03090599610117027     Document Type: Article

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