GONE BUT NOT LOST: THE DIFFERENT PERFORMANCE IMPACTS OF EMPLOYEE MOBILITY BETWEEN COOPERATORS VERSUS COMPETITORS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Somaya, Deepak; Williamson, Ian O.; Lorinkova, Natalia
• 署名单位: University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 936-953
• 关键词: HUMAN-RESOURCE PRACTICES; count data; VOLUNTARY TURNOVER; Structural holes; CAREER MOBILITY; social networks; FIRM RESOURCES; INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE; CONSEQUENCES

摘要

This article extends research on the relationship. between employee mobility and firm performance by exploring how mobility between competitors and mobility between potential cooperators are different. We draw on social capital theory to argue that movement of employees both to and from clients may enhance firm performance, whereas only inward mobility from competitors benefits firms. We also hypothesize that it is more harmful for firms to lose social capital-laden human assets to competitors than to other potential employee destinations. We tested our hypotheses with a novel dyadic data set of patent attorney movements between law firms and Fortune 500 companies.