Covenants Not to Compete, Labor Mobility, and Industry Dynamics

By April M. Franco, Matthew Mitchell. 2008

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Incumbent Adaptation to Technological Change: The Past, Present, and Future of Research on Heterogeneous Incumbent Response (2018, unknown): “Other studies, however, demonstrate that restricting employee turnover leads to lower innovative output (Franco & Mitchell, 2008).”
Does the Mobility of R&D Labor Increase Innovation? (2015, background): “Hence, mobility leads to sharing of social knowledge, which is the fundamental reason why labor mobility is perceived as an important source of aggregate innovation (Saxenian, 1994; Franco and Mitchell, 2008).”
Recruiting for Ideas: How Firms Exploit the Prior Inventions of New Hires (2010, unknown): “Several studies that examine the effects of restrictions on inter-firm mobility due to non-compete covenants find support for this view (Franco and Mitchell 2008, Marx et al. 2009, Samila and Sorenson 2009).”
The Second Face of Appropriability: Generative Appropriability and Its Determinants (2013, background): “Similarly, noncompete agreements that prevent employees from working in areas that are close to the areas they worked in for their employer (Franco & Mitchell, 2008; Marx, Strumsky, & Fleming, 2009) also reduce the attractiveness of departure for employees, since they reduce employees’ value to…”
Knowledge-Based Regional Economic Development: A Synthetic Review of Knowledge Spillovers, Entrepreneurship, and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (2018, background): “At the state level, the varying state laws regarding the enforceability of covenants not to compete have stood out in the context of knowledge spillover entrepreneurship or innovation-driven spin-offs (Franco & Mitchell, 2008; Gilson, 1999; Samila & Sorenson, 2011).”