Management Papers

Document Type

Technical Report

Date of this Version

2-2010

Publication Source

Strategic Management Journal

Volume

31

Issue

2

Start Page

159

Last Page

181

DOI

10.1002/smj.803

Abstract

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 us 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/Permission Statement

This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: [Corredoira, R.A. & Rosenkopf, L. (2010). Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot? The Reverse Transfer of Knowledge through Mobility Ties. Strategic Management Journal 31, no. 2: pp. 159-181], which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smj.803. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.

Keywords

outbound mobility, knowledge transfer, localization, social capital, interfirm networks, semiconductor industry

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Date Posted: 25 October 2018

This document has been peer reviewed.