Small business and online training in Australia: Who is willing to participate?

New Technology, Work and Employment

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 248-258

  Webster, Beverley ^a   Walker, Elizabeth ^a   Barrett, Rowena ^b  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; TRAINING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33745284556     PISSN: 02681072     EISSN: 1468005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-005X.2005.00157.x     Document Type: Article

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