Paradoxes of management development - trends and tensions

Career Development International

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 119-146

  Talbot, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84986131990     PISSN: 13620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13620439710163879     Document Type: Article

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