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Executive Selection Is a Process Not a Decision

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

David V. Day
David V. Day*
Affiliation:
University of Western Australia
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E-mail: david.day@uwa.edu.au, Address: University of Western Australia Business School, 35 Stirling Highway (M261), Crawley WA 6009, Australia.
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , June 2009 , pp. 159 - 162
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2009 

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