Stages of the recruitment process and the referrer's performance effect

Organization Science

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 710-723

  Yakubovich, Valery ^a   Lup, Daniela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Contingent workers; Hiring through referrals; Labor markets; Social networks; Virtual recruitment

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845401256     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1060.0214     Document Type: Article

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