Sector Imprinting: Exploring its Impacts on Managers' Perceived Formalized Personnel Rules, Perceived Red Tape, and Current Job Tenure

American Review of Public Administration

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 320-340

  Chen, Chung An ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

formalized personnel rules; job tenure; red tape; sector imprinting; Sector switching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859725404     PISSN: 02750740     EISSN: 15523357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0275074011402492     Document Type: Article

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