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Trust and Discourse: Organizational perspectives
Edited by Katja Pelsmaekers, Geert Jacobs and Craig Rollo
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 56] 2014
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Chapter 2. Trust in action

Building trust through embodied negotiation of mutual understanding in job interviews

Published online: 24 July 2014
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https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.56.02kus
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