Small business learning through mentoring: Evaluating a project

Education and Training

Volumn 48, Issue 8-9, 2006, Pages 614-626

  Barrett, Rowena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Learning; Mentoring; Project evaluation; Small emterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751432119     PISSN: 00400912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00400910610710047     Document Type: Article

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