We initiated a conversation between two prominent scholars in the field of employee mobility who come from different disciplinary backgrounds: Rajshree Agarwal — from the human capital research perspective — and Matthew Bidwell — from the human resource management research tradition. Their...

Employee mobility has significant implications for the ability of organizations to transform their capabilities and increase their competitive advantage. Over the past decades, research from different disciplines (i.e., strategic management, economics, sociology and OB/HR) have been paying...

Research on employee mobility has proliferated in the past four decades across four research traditions: Economics, sociology, management and organizational behavior/human resource management. Despite significant overlap in interest and focus, these four streams of research have evolved...

How does an employee's centrality in intra-firm R&D activities affect his/her propensity for outward mobility? Does this proclivity vary by the type of employment the employee seeks: moving to other firms versus founding a new venture? We maintain that to answer these questions we must...