How Do Mobility Direction and Human Assets of Mobile Engineers Affect Joint Knowledge Creation after M&As?
- Title
- How Do Mobility Direction and Human Assets of Mobile Engineers Affect Joint Knowledge Creation after M&As?
- Author
- 전영신
- Keywords
- joint knowledge creation; mobile engineer; mobility direction; relational and intellectual assets at the individual level
- Issue Date
- 2019-08
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Citation
- SUSTAINABILITY, v. 11, no. 16, article no. 4417
- Abstract
- We focused on mobile engineers, a distinctive employee group that may have unique reactions to mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Mobile engineers, employees that move from one firm to another, were previously recognized as an undesirable loss by most knowledge-intensive organizations. However, in this study, we show that they may return to their former organizations as effective knowledge creators when their previous and new organizations unite through M&As. We specifically investigated how their mobility direction, relational assets, and intellectual assets affect the amount of knowledge that is jointly created through inter-personal collaborations following the M&A. Using the data of 410 mobile engineers in high-technology M&As during 2000–2004 in the United States, we found that the mobility direction from acquiring firms to targets prior to M&A has a positive impact on joint knowledge creation. We also found that such mobility direction positively moderates the relationship between human assets of mobile engineers and their joint knowledge creation.
- URI
- https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/16/4417https://repository.hanyang.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11754/177672
- ISSN
- 2071-1050
- DOI
- 10.3390/su11164417
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- ETC[S] > 연구정보
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