While most social network studies of employee innovation behavior examine the focal employees' (“egos'”) network structure, we employ an alter-centric perspective to study the personal characteristics of employees' network contacts — their “alters” — to better understand employee...

We study the mapping between labor mobility and industrial innovative activity for the population of R&D active Danish firms observed between 1999 and 2004. Our study documents a positive relationship between the number of workers who join a firm and the firm's innovative activity. This...