A reconceptualization of mentoring and sponsoring

Management Decision

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 628-644

  Friday, Earnest ^a   Friday, Shawnta S ^b   Green, Anna L ^b  

^a Department of Management and International Business   (United States)

^b Florida A and M University   (United States)

Author keywords

Career development; Mentoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992974222     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740410538488     Document Type: Article

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