Antecedents and the Consequences of Employee Mobility

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donghwi Seo
Keyword(s):  
Employee Mobility

Living It Up at the Hotel California: Employee Mobility Barriers and Collaborativeness in Firms’ Innovation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eunkwang Seo ◽  
Deepak Somaya
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Knowledge Spillovers ◽  
Value Capture ◽  
Employee Mobility ◽  
Mobility Barriers ◽  
Collaborative Innovation ◽  
Complex Knowledge

Research has long recognized the importance of collaboration for innovation, but relatively little is known about the strategic drivers of collaborative innovation in firms. We posit that robust collaboration within firms can increase the interfirm mobility of inventors and increase spillovers of innovative knowledge to competitors by mobile inventors. Therefore, by mitigating these value capture hazards associated with collaboration, barriers to employee mobility may induce firms to increase collaborativeness in innovation. Additionally, consistent with the mechanism underlying this proposition, we hypothesize that firms whose innovation entails more complex knowledge, which is known to impede interfirm knowledge spillovers, will increase collaboration less when employee mobility increases. We test these hypotheses by leveraging quasi-exogenous changes in two legal mobility barriers for inventors across U.S. states and find that higher-mobility barriers are associated with greater inventor collaboration (as observed in patented innovation), and this effect is weaker for firms possessing more complex knowledge. These findings deepen our understanding of the strategic tradeoffs between value creation and value capture entailed in collaborative innovation within firms and of human capital strategies that help to manage these tradeoffs.

Vacancy Notification and Employee Mobility

1993 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 39-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark N.K. Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Employee Mobility

THE EFFECTS OF EMPLOYEE MOBILITY BETWEEN COMPETITORS AND COOPERATORS ON FIRM PERFORMANCE.

2007 ◽  
Vol 2007 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
DEEPAK SOMAYA ◽  
Ian O. Williamson ◽  
Natalia Lorinkova
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Employee Mobility

Spin-outs: knowledge diffusion through employee mobility

2006 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 841-860 ◽  
Author(s):  
April Mitchell Franco ◽  
Darren Filson
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Diffusion ◽  
Employee Mobility
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