Pushing the boundaries on mentoring: Can mentoring be a knowledge tool?

Journal of Business Economics and Management

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 85-97

  Henriques, Paulo Lopes ^a   Curado, Carla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Change; Human resources management practices; Information centres; Mentoring; Organizational memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 75949117931     PISSN: 16111699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/1611-1699.2009.10.85-97     Document Type: Article

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