The importance of facilitator role behaviors: Implications for training facilitators and teachers to use gss

Journal of Teaching in International Business

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 7-30

  Bostrom, Robert P ^a   Watson, Richard T ^a   Clawson, Victoria K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

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EID: 85011476729     PISSN: 08975930     EISSN: 15286991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J066v07n04_02     Document Type: Article

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