Learning - by - Hiring: When Is Mobility More Likely to Facilitate Interfirm Knowledge Transfer?

By Jaeyong Song, Paul Almeida, Geraldine A. Wu. Management Sciences, 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management

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Overcoming the liability of foreignness without strong firm capabilities — the value of market-based resources (2010, background): “Employees, whether of own or competitor firms, have been identified as important sources of knowledge (Almeida and Kogut, 1999; Saxenian, 1994; Song et al., 2003).”
Reputations for toughness in patent enforcement: implications for knowledge spillovers via inventor mobility (2009, neutral): “Prior studies of knowledge spillovers through employee mobility (e.g., Almeida and Kogut, 1999; Rosenkopf and Almeida, 2003; Song et al., 2003) implicitly assume a passive role for source firms in the process by which knowledge diffuses across firm boundaries.”
Knowledge flow in Technological Business Incubators: Evidence from Australia and Israel (2015, background): “The way to acquire tacit knowledge is to take a nonstructural method, like experience, that canwear a form of learning by doing (Arrow, 1962), learning by using (Rossenberg, 1982), and learning by hiring (Song et al., 2003).”
R&D drivers and age: : Are young firms different? (2014, background): “Leiponen (2005) and Piva and Vivarelli (2009) show that higher manpower skills may result in higher levels of R&D investment since skilled workers are both more suited to dealing with complexity (Song et al., 2003) and more likely to ‘absorb’ knowledge and consequently to reinforce the absorptive ca”
Human Mobility and International Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from High-tech Small and Medium Enterprises in an Emerging Market (2010, background): “However, very few studies have been carried out on the impact of cross-border human mobility on knowledge spillovers (Song et al., 2003).”
The Use of Knowledge for Technological Innovation Within Diversified Firms (2007, background): “…1996; Rosenkopf & Almeida, 2003), the employment of new inventors (Almeida & Kogut, 1999; Argote & Ingram, 2000; Rosenkopf & Almeida, 2003; Song et al., 2003), and the acquisition of other firms (and, hence, their employees’ embedded knowledge) (Ahuja & Katila, 2001; Capron et al., 1998;…”
The role of skills as a major driver of corporate R&D (2009, background): “Finally, skilled people manage to deal with complexity, and job complexity positively interacts with creativity, innovation and suggestion-making as regards how to improve processes and products and to meet identified gaps (see Song, Almeida and Wu, 2003”
Evolution of R&D Capabilities: The Role of Knowledge Networks Within a Firm (2005, background): “We follow other researchers who have considered patents as excellent indicators of technological competence (Ahuja 2000b, Jaffe et al. 1993, Narin et al. 1987, Silverman 1999) and patent citations of knowledge flows across firms and individuals (Song et al. 2003).”