Investigating undergraduate business internships: Do supervisor and self-evaluations differ?

Journal of Education for Business

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 33-45

  Marks, Melanie Beth ^a   Haug, James C ^a   Hu, Huiwen ^b  

^a LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaluations; internships; self evaluations; supervisors

Indexed keywords

EID: 85041556702     PISSN: 08832323     EISSN: 19403356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08832323.2017.1414025     Document Type: Article

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