How does labour mobility affect the performance of plants? The importance of relatedness and geographical proximity

By Ron A. Boschma, Rikard H. Eriksson, Urban Lindgren. 2008

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Knowledge flows and the absorptive capacity of regions (2015, background): “Theoretical and empirical evidence in support of a relation between high-skilled workers mobility and knowledge diffusion is extensive (Almeida and Kogut, 1999; Arrow, 1962; Boschma et al., 2009; Rosenkopf and Almeida, 2003; Singh and Agrawal, 2011; Stephan, 1996).”
Comparing knowledge bases: on the geography and organization of knowledge sourcing in the regional innovation system of Scania, Sweden (2013, background): “The explanatory power of labour mobility is also emphasized in the literature on skill-relatedness, in which industries are defined as related to each other if they share the same or similar skills, measured in terms of labour flows between companies (Boschma et al., 2009; Neffke and Henning, 2010).”
TOURISM EVOLUTION: ON THE SYNERGIES OF TOURISM STUDIES AND EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY (2013, background): “A number of years ago Boschma and Frenken (2006) asked ‘why is economic geography not an evolutionary science?’ , paraphrasing Veblen's (1898) seminal call for greater heterodox thinking in economics.”
The emerging empirics of evolutionary economic geography (2011, background): “Labour mobility is one such channel through which knowledge is being transferred between companies, and there is some evidence that especially labour flows between related industries are of particular relevance for firms’ performance (Boschma et al., 2009).”
Evolutionary agglomeration theory: increasing returns, diminishing returns, and the industry life cycle (2011, background): “To recap, respondents were asked during the interviews to quantify the percentage of their employees that are highly skilled (Robson and Bennett, 2000; Boschma et al., 2009).”
Innovation Policy for Grand Challenges. An Economic Geography Perspective (2015, background): “Boschma et al. (2009) find that relatedness in mobility, i.e. inf low of new employees with skills that are related – but dissimilar – to existing competencies, has particular positive effects.”
Relatedness, Industrial Branching and Technological Cohesion in US Metropolitan Areas (2013, methodology): “This is the approach chosen by FRENKEN et al. (2007), BOSCHMA and IAMMARINO (2009), BOSCHMA et al. (2009, 2012), QUATRARO (2010), and HARTOG et al. (2012).”
Entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth: a network theory (2015, background): “It is clearly important to understand how different forms of accessed knowledge contribute to the performance of entrepreneurial firms (Boschma et al. 2009), with the nature of the knowledge flowing and accessed through inter-organisational networks being an important determinant of the value…”
A Network-based view of regional growth (2014, background): “In this sense, miscibility will be based upon rates of knowledge coherence and variety (Frenken et al., 2007; Boschma et al, 2009; Quatraro, 2010).”
Related Variety, Trade Linkages, and Regional Growth in Italy (2009, background): “For instance, in a recent study on labor mobility and related variety in Sweden, Boschma, Eriksson, and Lindgren (2009) found evidence that the hiring of employees with skills that were related to the existing knowledge base of the plant had a positive effect on the plant’s performance, while the…”
The interregional migration of human capital and its regional consequences: a review (2017, background): “Local labour markets Sweden Ahlin, Andersson, and Thulin (2016); Boschma et al. (2009)”
Research Networks and Inventors' Mobility as Drivers of Innovation: Evidence from Europe (2013, background): “Their movement across firms therefore contributes to knowledge exchange between firms (BOSCHMA et al., 2009).”
Does University Quality Influence the Interregional Mobility of Students and Graduates? The Case of Italy (2014, background): “Since knowledge ultimately rests within individuals (BOSCHMA et al., 2009), universities would contribute to regional growth, competitiveness (LUCAS, 1988), and structural change (BOSCHMA et al., 2009).”