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16 - Training and Development in Small and Medium Enterprises

from Part IV - Special Topics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2017

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Melissa S. Cardon  and
Stephen D. Valentin
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Kenneth G. Brown
Kenneth G. Brown
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The Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Training and Employee Development , pp. 363 - 382
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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