Engineering identities

Career Development International

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 245-273

  Brown, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Employees attitudes; Europe; Metalworking industry; Organizational change; Workplace learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986059562     PISSN: 13620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13620430410535841     Document Type: Article

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