This study examines the contagious influence of cohorts on newcomers. Addressing problem high newcomer turnover, this investigates how job search behavior cohort impacts and turnover decisions Using survey responses from 656 graduate trainees in 32 at a large global IT services organization, two key moderators are identified: closeness ties geographic location preference. Newcomers close to their more likely influenced by them. If searches for job, also contagiously is leave. However, effect...

Many professionals derive value from engaging in pro bono work, which is also supported by a large and increasing number of employers. Ongoing shifts the work values held young an emphasis on social responsibility within professional fields has reinforced this trend. In paper, we investigate potential programs for firms, particular through their impacts firms’ ability to compete motivate human capital. We posit that may provide talented employees with highly valued non-pecuniary benefits,...

In this paper, we seek to advance the resource-based view by challenging two assumptions common in prior work: (1) more resources, better and (2) demand-side factors are less important than supply-side factors. Accordingly, relax these theorize that beyond a certain level of investment human capital there negative returns (consumer) satisfaction with firm. addition, hypothesize conditions which excess investments for improving consumer satisfaction, i.e., when firm has differentiated...

Firms often augment their talent either through a human capital building strategy or acquiring strategy. However, in order to generate economic returns, this essay identifies four essential problems that need be addressed: quality uncertainty, firm-specific capital, team complementarities, and employee motivation. The can manifest differently depending on the firm's augmentation This theorizes empirically tests firm’s capabilities reduce these thus increase its returns. Based sample of 145...

Firms must often decide how to augment their human capital (HC) in a manner that can generate competitive advantages. Two predominant options are either (1) build which entails hiring novice employees and developing them inside the firm or (2) acquire means hire experienced from other firms then integrating them. Recent trends suggest pursuing both order have mix of HC strategies. In this paper, I analyze pursue building acquiring strategies, investigate when attributes inform effective...

In a resource-scarce world, social enterprises compete for funds. They need to create more value their customers by judiciously using scarce financial resources mobilize other non-financial like physical, human, and capital. Resource mobilization in happens predominantly through optimization, which acquires with proven efficiencies, or bricolage, utilizes available at hand uses them unique ways. Physical capital, acquired can generate traditional Ricardian rents, while human non-traditional...

Extant research suggests that hiring experts during economic downturns can improve firm financial performance. However, recessionary labor markets deepen the challenges facing firms, calling to question both firm-level benefits and tactics of acquiring talent when demand for a firm's business is declining. We theorize find expert recession actually weakens performance in context knowledge-based services. Notably though, we firms effectively attenuate negative effect by targeting particular...

Extant research theorizes that countercyclical hiring, i.e., hiring during economic downturns, can improve firm performance. However, prior studies have yet to unpack the conditions under which this seemingly paradoxical strategy–hiring talent when demand for firms’ products and services is less stable or declining–is beneficial firms. In context of U.S. legal industry, we theorize predict while firms may perceive they achieve performance benefits from expert a recession, such recruitment...

In this paper, we identify and study the influence of a specific group others, newcomer’s cohort peers, on turnover job search. While will have similar effects newcomer as predicted by on-the-job embeddedness literature, find two other relevant moderators—newcomer-cohort closeness ties location preference—as moderators that enhance or curb search turnover. We studied responses from 656 recently graduated newcomers who are divided into twenty cohorts in an information technology (IT) services...

External hiring infuses organizations with new skills and abilities, but also disrupts the firm’s existing routines, both of which may have implications for inclusivity a firm its subsequent performance. Since relationship between recruitment performance is not straightforward, we undertake more nuanced examination impact external on in two distinct empirical contexts: basketball teams law firms. We theorize that effect depends type recruit (rookie vs. seasoned employee) task they are hired...

Individuals develop human capital through both experiences and education throughout their working careers. An implicit assumption in the literature is that career development relatively uniform agnostic to timing of individual’s experience or sequence experiences. However, not all individuals with similar functional backgrounds tenures capital. We utilize an imprinting lens theorize on different types experiences, how strength these lead differences discuss primacy a classificatory framework...

We study a social enterprise that recruits and trains bricoleurs, defined as an entrepreneur who promotes the enterprise’s mission has financial independence. Agency problems emerge bricoleurs deviate from focus more on their own entrepreneurial activities. observe natural experiment in sought to achieve gender balance by exclusively recruiting female about of half its district locations rural India. Compared male we find were likely performance than returns. Therefore, hiring maintain not...