The impact of business process management and applicant tracking systems on recruiting process performance: an empirical study

Journal of Business Economics

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 421-453

  Laumer, Sven ^a   Maier, Christian ^a   Eckhardt, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Applicant tracking system; Business process management; Human resources information systems; Information systems success; Process performance; Recruiting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955491589     PISSN: 00442372     EISSN: 18618928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11573-014-0758-9     Document Type: Article

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