Delimiting knowledge transfer from training

Education and Training

Volumn 48, Issue 8-9, 2006, Pages 627-641

  Butler, Allan ^a   Le Grice, Phil ^b   Reed, Matt ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b Duchy College   (United Kingdom)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Knowledge transfer; Trust; Vocational training

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751408550     PISSN: 00400912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00400910610710056     Document Type: Article

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