Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Spillover Asymmetry and Why It Matters
Management Science
Unpacking Prior Experience: How Career History Affects Job Performance
Organization Science
Mobility, Skills, and the Michigan Non-Compete Experiment
Management Science
Markets for Inventors: Learning-by-Hiring as a Driver of Mobility
Management Science
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on Bridging the Socio-technical Gap in Decision Support Systems: Challenges for the Next Decade
The Dynamics of Interorganizational Careers
Organization Science
Recruiting for Ideas: How Firms Exploit the Prior Inventions of New Hires
Management Science
Investing in Capabilities: The Dynamics of Resource Allocation
Organization Science
Organizational Learning: From Experience to Knowledge
Organization Science
Telecommunications Policy
Network Progeny? Prefounding Social Ties and the Success of New Entrants
Management Science
The Effect of Going Public on Innovative Productivity and Exploratory Search
Organization Science
Dealing with Complexity: Integrated vs. Chunky Search Processes
Organization Science
Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory
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Recent research suggests that, due to organizational and relational constraints, firms are limited contextually--both geographically and technologically--in their search for new knowledge. But distant contexts may offer ideas and insights that can be extremely useful to innovation through knowledge recombination. So how can firms reach beyond their existing contexts in their search for new knowledge? In this paper, we suggest that two mechanisms--alliances and the mobility of inventors--can serve as bridges to distant contexts and, thus, enable firms to overcome the constraints of contextually localized search.Through the analysis of patent citation patterns in the semiconductor industry, we first demonstrate both the geographic and technological localization of knowledge. We then explore if the formation of alliances and mobility of active inventors facilitate interfirm knowledge flows across contexts. We find that mobility is associated with interfirm knowledge flows regardless of geographic proximity and, in fact, the usefulness of alliances and mobility increases with technological distance. These findings suggest that firms can employ knowledge acquisition mechanisms to fill in the holes of their existing technological and geographic context.