Management competence development for professional service SMEs: The case of community pharmacy

Education + Training

Volumn 42, Issue 4-5, 2000, Pages 246-255

  Ottewill, Roger ^a   Jennings, Peter L ^b   Magirr, Peter ^c  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c Superintendent Pharmacist at GK Greenstreet Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competences; Entrepreneurs; Management development; Pharmaceutical industry; Service industries; Small to medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986106878     PISSN: 00400912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00400910010373697     Document Type: Article

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