Searching for e-mentoring practices for SME staff development

Service Business

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 189-207

  Leppisaari, Irja ^a,b   Tenhunen, Marja Liisa ^a  

^a Central Ostrobothnia University of Applied Sciences   (Finland)

^b AVERKO   (Finland)

Author keywords

E mentoring; Entrepreneurship; Higher education; Intrapreneurship; SME business; Staff development

Indexed keywords

EID: 71449109363     PISSN: 18628516     EISSN: 18628508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11628-008-0060-4     Document Type: Article

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