Student reactions to the field consulting capstone course in operations management at the University of Dayton

Interfaces

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 564-577

  Gorman, Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Application; Consulting; Education systems; Pedagogy; Undergraduate

Indexed keywords

EID: 83455221729     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: 1526551X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.1110.0567     Document Type: Article

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