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Advances in Strategic Management
Employee Inter- and Intra-Firm Mobility:
Taking Stock of What We Know, Identifying Novel Insights and Setting a Theoretical and Empirical Agenda
Volume Editors: Daniel Tzabbar, Bruno Cirillo and Gino Cattani
Submission deadline: March 31, 2019
A gentle reminder – we seek provoking papers designed to provide novel insights into the antecedents and consequences of internal employee mobility (i.e., lateral vs. promotion) and of the external employee mobility (i.e., within and between industries; to rivals and entrepreneurship) at the industry, firm, team and individual levels of analysis. The goal of this volume in Advances in Strategic Management (AiSM) is to identify new theoretical and empirical directions to the study of employee mobility, covering a broad set of theoretical frameworks which can be embedded in strategic, organizational, sociological or entrepreneurial theories. We also wish to spark debates among scholars. Although we favor empirical contributions, we will also consider theoretical development and conceptual papers.
Over the past decade, scholars in strategic management, economics and sociology have been paying increasing attention to the strategic implications of the internal and external employee mobility. The lack of a unifying conceptual structure within and across these domains limits our ability to gain comparative insights regarding the varying effects of the various mechanisms associated with each type of mobility. Does the diversity of perspectives on mobility enrich or fragment our understanding of them? Alternatively, does it undermine our understanding by encouraging a proliferation of uncorroborated ideas? The diversity of theoretical lenses, contexts and methods motivates the current call for a critical theoretical integration.
Types of expected contributions
v Empirical papers with an emphasis on testing theories and/or integrating them
v New theoretical and conceptual development
v Open debate: Critical theoretical and empirical commentary on published papers, whose authors will be invited to respond (e.g., critical replications and additions to existing research)
v Research notes
v Reviews of empirical challenges and opportunities in the study of inter- and intra-firm mobility
Suggested topics for contribution
v Tensions between and complements to various theoretical perspectives on employee mobility
v The importance of technological and social contexts for the relationship between mobility and the transformation of the firm
v Investigations of the theoretical mechanisms associated with internal (i.e., lateral vs. promotion) and external employee mobility (i.e., within or across industries; to rivals or to startups)
v Novel insights into market push and pull forces that drive employees' decisions to remain with their current employer, move to a rival firm, or start a new venture
v Insights into the antecedents and consequences of different types of mobility, such as seasoned vs. rookie employee, prolific vs. non-prolific employee, individual vs. collective employee mobility
v Industrial and temporal dynamics of each type of employee mobility
v Novel empirical approaches to studying intra- and inter-firm mobility
Submissions are due no later than March 31, 2019. All papers submitted must represent original research not previously published elsewhere. All submissions will be subject to in-depth review, and editorial decisions and revision requests will be communicated to authors by June 30, 2019. Revised papers will have to be submitted by September 30, 2019. The targeted publication date for the volume is early to mid-2020. In your submission mention the type of contribution from the list above and who you wish to have as your discussant from the list below should your paper will be accepted. To submit a paper, send an email to AiSM-Mobility@drexel.edu.
Should your paper get accepted it will be sent to one of the discussants listed below:
1. Joseph Broshak, University of Arizona
2. Peter Cappelli, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
3. Gino Cattani, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University
4. Bruno Cirillo, SKEMA Business School
5. Lisa Cohen, Desautels, McGill University
6. Martin Ganco, Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison
7. Hugh Gunz, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
8. Karin Hoisl, University of Mannheim
9. Andrew Shipilov, INSEAD
10. Daniel Tzabbar, LeBow College of Business, Drexel University