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The Bureaucratic Competency: A Source of Power? An Exploration of International Organizations Staff Through the Notion of Competency in Organizational Sociology

Swiss Journal of Sociology
Volume 49 (2023): Issue 1 (March 2023)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2023-0006 | Journal eISSN: 2297-8348
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Language: English
Page range: 83 - 102
Published on: Mar 3, 2023
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Keywords:
Competency,
international organizations,
career,
recruitment,
organizational socio logy
Related subjects:
Social sciences,
Sociology,
Sociological theory,
Methods, techniques, statistics,
Social structures, social interaction, population, social anthropology,
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