Motivation vs. relevance: Using strong ties to find a job in Urban China

While the idea that contacts matter in finding a job is intuitively appealing, we still do not know—after decades of research—how and why strong ties benefit job seekers. To resolve this confusion, we need to theorize how specific characteristics of ties are related to the mechanisms that make job s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Obukhova, Elena
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier B.V. 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75369