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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

We are pleased to enclose a call for a special issue in Advances in Strategic Management (AiSM) on Employee Mobility. We would like to invite you and your students to contribute to this volume of the AiSM book series. We seek thought provoking papers designed to provide novel insights into the antecedents and consequences of employee mobility at the industry, firm, team and individual levels of analysis.

The goal of this volume in 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. Our objective is also to search for new areas and methods in which to test novel propositions on employee mobility, as well as to spark debates among scholars. Therefore, we also welcome contributions from different epistemological approaches and from all empirical contexts where issues of employee mobility are relevant to organizational and individual performance. In particular, we would like to encourage the corroboration and development of individual perspectives and conditional analyses of the boundaries of adjacent perspectives. Although we favor empirical contributions, we will also consider theoretical development and conceptual papers.

Types of expected contributions

·         Empirical papers with an emphasis on testing theories and/or integrating them

·         New theoretical and conceptual development

·         Open debate: Critical theoretical and empirical commentary on published papers, whose authors will be invited to respond

·         Research notes

·         Reviews of empirical challenges and opportunities in the study of inter- and intra-firm mobility

Suggested topics for expected contribution 

·         Tensions between and complements to various theoretical perspectives on employee mobility. For example, how can the sociological perspective inform KBV in the context of mobility?

·         The importance of the technological and social context for the relationship between mobility and the transformation of the firm

·         Investigations of the various theoretical mechanisms associated with each type of mobility (e.g., Inter- vs. Intra- mobility; a move to rival vs. employee entrepreneurship)

·         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

·         Industrial and temporal dynamics of each type of employee mobility

·         Novel empirical approaches to studying the antecedents and consequences of intra- and inter-firm mobility and employee entrepreneurship.

Submission Guidelines

·         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.

·         To submit a paper, send an email to Daniel Tzabbar (dt396@drexel.edu) and/or Bruno Cirillo (bruno.cirillo@skema.edu).

To ask questions about the content of this AiSM volume or the editorial process, please contact any of the volume's editors, as well as Gino Cattani (gcattani@stern.nyu.edu), who is the AiSM series editor.

Respectfully,

Daniel Tzabbar, Bruno Cirillo and Gino Cattani