Towards evidence-based management development

Management Development: Perspectives from Research and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 95-119

  Hamlin, Bob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203934142     Document Type: Chapter

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