Social connections that reach distant places are advantageous for individuals and firms by providing access to new skills and knowledge. However, systematic evidence on how firms work up global knowledge access is still missing. In this paper, we analyse how global work connections relate to...

The concept of "relatedness" between industries plays an increasingly central role in economics and strategic management. However, relatedness has remained rather elusive in empirical terms. In this article, we investigate relatedness between industries in terms of the extent to which the same...

Die Resilienz einer regionalen Ökonomie hängt maßgeblich davon ab, inwiefern relevantes spezifisches Humankapital zwischen deren Wirtschaftsaktivitäten wieder verwertet werden kann. Zu diesem Zweck wird das Instrumentarium Industry Space, das sich auf die Ähnlichkeiten in der Nutzung von...