Factors influencing the adoption of online recruitment

Personnel Review

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 655-673

  Parry, Emma ^a   Wilson, Hugh ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human resource management; Internet; Online operations; Recruitment; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350351388     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480910992265     Document Type: Article

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