Purpose: This is an empirical article which aims to examine the extent and nature of management role modelling and the learning achieved from role modelling. The article argues that the spread of taught management development and formal mentoring programmes has resulted in the neglect of practice-knowledge and facets of managerial character…

Purpose: This paper attempts to shed light on the effect of educational programmes aimed at entrepreneurs on innovation and business success. Design/methodology/approach: We use as theoretical framework the theory of planned behaviour. We use a sample of 354 entrepreneurs from Castile and Leon, Spain. To estimate the model we use a path analysis…

This bibliographic issue includes abstracts of 104 articles from largely U.S. and British journals on the following subjects: general training issues, education and students, training/learning techniques, training technology, skills training, management development, and career/human resource development. (SK)

This monograph reports the findings of a literature review and subsequent discussions with trainers, consultants, and management educators in the United Kingdom and the United States. The results of the literature review and of the detailed discussions confirmed that remarkably little attention was given to the question of how to help managers…

Includes abstracts from MCB University Press journals with article ordering information. The abstracts are categorized as follows: general training issues, education and students, training/learning techniques, training technology, skills training, management development, and career/human resource development. (SK)

Purpose: In response to an identified information need about entrepreneurial teaching methods employed in the European higher education system, aims to investigate whether this type of experimentation could make a difference--an activity traditionally considered individualistic within a collectivist society--and, second, to evaluate the project in…