Insider accounts: Deconstructing a personal “academic”/“practitioner” narrative through self-reflexivity

Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 144-160

  McKenna, Steve ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurs; Experiential learning; Narratives

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931038746     PISSN: 13555855     EISSN: 17584248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17465640710778539     Document Type: Article

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