Developing effective e-recruiting websites: Insights for managers from marketers

Business Horizons

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 305-314

  Maurer, Steven D ^a   Liu, Yuping ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

E recruiting; Elaboration likelihood model; Internet; Marketing; Websites

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249066871     PISSN: 00076813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2007.01.002     Document Type: Article

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