In search of the "right stuff:" The advantages and disadvantages of informal and formal recruiting practices in external labor markets

American Journal of Economics and Sociology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 133-153

  Mencken, F Carson ^a   Winfield, Idee ^a  

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