This study examines the effect of peer-level analyst transitions (i.e., switching between brokerage houses) on associated regular incumbent analysts’ forecasting performance. We employ a difference-in-differences research design with analyst fixed effects and compare incumbent analysts of...

Firms need new sources of HRM knowledge to enhance their internal knowledge stocks to manage their HRM systems, yet the importance of HRM knowledge flows has been somewhat neglected in the literature. We contend that flows of HRM knowledge take place in informal inter-organizational networks and...

This article examines the effect of financial analysts’ knowledge structure on their forecast performance based on manually collected data of 1590 sell-side financial analysts’ education background. The longer the period of higher education in one major, the profounder the knowledge in a...