Managing job seekers' organizational image beliefs: The role of media richness and media credibility

Journal of Applied Psychology

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 828-840

  Cable, Daniel M ^a,b   Yu, Kang Yang Trevor ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Media credibility; Media richness; Organizational image beliefs; Organizational knowledge; Recruitment; Recruitment media

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746458461     PISSN: 00219010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.91.4.828     Document Type: Article

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