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Direct linkGold, Jeff; Jones, Ollie – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2023
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been particularly challenged by the COVID pandemic, the climate crisis, war and political tensions including the fuel price crisis. Strategic responses to crisis including cost-cutting as retrenchment in the short run, debt financing to preserve the status quo and exit. However, perhaps the most…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Innovation, Futures (of Society)
Anderson, Lisa; Gold, Jeff – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2009
In this paper we consider the construction of narrative identity and particularly how managers of small businesses may construct new narrative identities within the activity of the action learning situation. We build on recent work to suggest that the "world" of managers can be explored through a consideration of Vygotsky's socio-cultural theory…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Experiential Learning, Administrators, Identification
Clarke, Jean; Thorpe, Richard; Anderson, Lisa; Gold, Jeff – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to argue that action learning (AL) may provide a means of successfully developing small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach: The literature around SME learning suggests a number of processes are important for SME learning which similarity, it is argued, are encompassed in AL. AL may…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Experiential Learning, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedGold, Jeff; Devins, Dave; Johnson, Alistair – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2003
Examines the case of one small business manager and the value he gave to a mentoring intervention demonstrated by the use of narrative evaluation. Doubts about the efficacy of orthodox approaches to evaluation when applied to management development activities lead to the view that narratives are more appropriate. (Contains 38 references.) (GCP)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Interprofessional Relationship, Mentors
Holden, Rick; Nabi, Ghulam; Gold, Jeff; Robertson, Martyn – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2006
Purpose: The UK Government policy for the training and development of its workforce reflects a desire to move towards a more flexible, "demand-led" system. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the outcomes and impact of two, publicly funded initiatives, designed to stimulate and enhance "demand-led" training within the UK's…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Research Methodology, Trainers, Foreign Countries
Devins, David; Gold, Jeff; Johnson, Steve; Holden, Rick – Education & Training, 2005
Purpose: This article proposes the development of a conceptual model to help understand the nature of management learning in the micro business context and to inform research and policy discourse. Design/Methodology/Approach: The model is developed on the basis of a literature search and review of academic and grey literature. Findings: The…
Descriptors: Leadership Qualities, Intervention, Management Development, Business Administration
