Talent Sourcing Concentration: Source Abundance, Recruiter Power, and Organizational Performance

Pipeline hiring, repeatedly sourcing talent from the same organization, is a common way for firms to accumulate human capital. Pipelines create relational ties that develop over time between hiring and source organizations that can confer advantages to either party, and this study considers the implications of pipeline hiring on the hiring organization’s performance. Using social capital theory and supply chain logic to understand the impacts of...