SHOULD AULD ACQUAINTANCE BE FORGOT? THE REVERSE TRANSFER OF KNOWLEDGE THROUGH MOBILITY TIES

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Corredoira, Rafael A.; Rosenkopf, Lori
• 署名单位: University of Pennsylvania; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
• 刊物名称: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0143-2095
• DOI: 10.1002/smj.803
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 159-181
• 关键词: outbound mobility; Knowledge transfer; localization; Social capital; INTERFIRM NETWORKS; semiconductor industry

摘要

While mobility's effect on knowledge transfer to firms that hire mobile employees is well demonstrated, we choose to explore mobility's effect on knowledge transfer to firms that lose these employees. Focusing on this 'outbound mobility' allows its to isolate effects of social mechanisms associated with mobility. We find that semiconductor firms losing employees are more likely to subsequently cite patents of firms hiring these employees, suggesting that mobility-driven knowledge flows are bidirectional. In addition, the outbound mobility effect is pronounced when mobility occurs between geographically distant firms, but attenuates for geographically proximate firms since other redundant knowledge channels exist within regions. Copyright (C) 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.