Does class matter? Mentoring small businesses' owner-managers

Journal of European Industrial Training

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 639-652

  Greenbank, Paul ^a  

^a EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Culture; Decision making; Mentoring; Small enterprises; Social class; Young adults

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749411060     PISSN: 03090590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03090590610712296     Document Type: Article

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