Achieving Business Focus: Promoting the Entrepreneurial Management Capabilities of Owner-Managers

Industry and Higher Education

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 415-426

  Rae, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

business support; entrepreneurship education; management learning; small business development; SMEs

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955063111     PISSN: 09504222     EISSN: 20436858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/000000007783099773     Document Type: Article

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