Career route preferences of design engineers: An empirical research

Career Development International

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 288-294

  Petroni, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Careers; Designers; Engineers; Food industry; Packaging industry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986180547     PISSN: 13620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13620430010373764     Document Type: Article

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