Modelling the benefits of training to business performance in leisure retailing

Strategic Change

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 311-325

  Eaglen, Andrew ^a   Lashley, Conrad ^a   Thomas, Rhodri ^a  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85174948901     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10991697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1099-1697(200008)9:5<311::AID-JSC504>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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