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Invitation to AOM Symposium
Dear Colleagues,
You are cordially invited to our symposium at the AOM Meeting in Chicago:
Presenter Symposium: "Innovators' Mobility: Antecedents and Consequences for Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation"
Logistics
Tuesday, Aug 14 2018, 9:45AM – 11:15AM
Zurich C room, Swissôtel Chicago
Sponsored by the STR and TIM Division
Organizer
Arianna Marchetti (INSEAD)
Discussants
Gina Dokko (University of California at Davis)
Martin Ganco (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Presenters
Francesco Di Lorenzo (Copenhagen Business School)
Justin Frake (University of Maryland)
Benjamin King (University of Maryland)
Arianna Marchetti (INSEAD)
Joseph Raffiee (University of Southern California)
Symposium Overview:
"[...] firms cannot achieve a sustainable advantage from human assets unless they are able to cope with the associated management dilemmas. The most obvious problem is that the firm's assets walk out the door each day, leaving some question about whether they will return." (Coff, 1997: 375)
According to the resource-based view of the firm, sustainable competitive advantage stems from bundles of resources that are valuable, rare and hardly imitable by competitors (Barney, 1991; Wernerfelt, 1984). Consequently, human assets are often considered a source of competitive advantage for firms, as they are difficult to imitate, especially due to scarcity and specialization (Campbell, Coff and Kryscynski, 2012; Lippman and Rumelt, 1982; Teece, 1982). Previous research has shown that this is particularly the case for companies in innovation-based industries, given that knowledge and organizational capabilities are embodied in human resources in their tacit nature (Grant, 1996; Kogut and Zander, 1992; McGrath and Argote, 2001). Therefore, firms commit extensive amounts of resources to attract, train and utilize human capital in the most effective way (Agarwal, Ganco, and Ziedonis, 2009; Campbell, Ganco, Franco, and Agarwal, 2012).
However, unlike other types of competitive-advantage-yielding resources, firms do not fully own or control their strategic human capital (Cascio, 1991; Chiang and Chiang, 1990; Steffy and Maurer, 1988). Human capital is mobile in nature, and employees' departures represent a serious threat for firms, particularly in knowledge-intensive industries, where the turnover of key talent "can deliver a double blow – the firms lose valuable human capital and rivals stand to gain technological know-how at their expense" (Agarwal et al., 2009: 1350–1351).
Understanding the phenomenon of innovators' mobility, its antecedents and consequences, therefore, holds important implications for both strategy research and practice, if we are to comprehend how firms can sustain strategic human capital-based competitive advantage.
Presentations
Job-Education Match and Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Science and Engineering Graduates
Authors: Martin Ganco & Joseph Raffiee
Signals or Shackles? The Effect of Patents on Inventor Mobility and Entrepreneurship
Author: Justin Frake
Post-employment Restrictive Covenants and the Rate and Direction of Entrepreneurship
Authors: Evan Starr & Benjamin King
Cross-Organization Collaboration and Mobility of Knowledge Workers
Authors: Benjamin Campbell, Francesco Di Lorenzo & Valentina Tartari
Star Inventors' Mobility for Knowledge Sourcing: An Alternative to Technology Acquisitions
Authors: Arianna Marchetti & Philipp Meyer Doyle
Kind regards,
Arianna Marchetti
PhD Candidate – Strategy Department
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Email: arianna.marchetti@insead.edu
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