Management Development in European Small and Medium Enterprises

Advances in Developing Human Resources

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 451-469

  Gray, Colin ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

entrepreneur; management development; organizational growth; SMEs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990385557     PISSN: 15234223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1523422304268381     Document Type: Article

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