How Employee Selection Decisions are Made in Practice

Organization Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 285-311

  Bolander, Pernilla ^a   Sandberg, Jörgen ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

critical HRM; decision making; discourse analysis; employee selection; ethnomethodology; meetings; practice theory; selection decision

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875027765     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840612464757     Document Type: Article

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