Recruitment and selection practices, person-brand fit and soft skills gaps in service organizations: The benefits of institutionalized informality

Branded Lives: The Production and Consumption of Meaning at Work

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 108-127

  Hurrell, Scott A ^a   Scholarios, Dora ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

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