Towards a healthy high street: Developing mentoring schemes for smaller retailers

Industrial and Commercial Training

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 248-255

  Hudson Davies, Richard ^a   Parker, Cathy ^a   Byrom, John ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mentoring; Retailing; Small to medium sized enterprises; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986097806     PISSN: 00197858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00197850210447237     Document Type: Article

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