From e-mentoring to blended mentoring: Increasing students' developmental initiation and mentors' satisfaction

Academy of Management Learning and Education

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 606-622

  Murphy, Wendy Marcinkus ^a  

^a BABSON COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 84856043790     PISSN: 1537260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5465/amle.2010.0090     Document Type: Article

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