The literature on “entrepreneurial opportunities” has grown rapidly since the publication of
Shane and Venkataraman (2000). By directing attention to the earliest stages of …

A large and growing literature spanning multiple fields has identified employee mobility as a
critical influence on several important organizational outcomes. However, extant research …

Strategic human capital has emerged as an area of interest in both the strategy and human
resources management literatures, yet these literatures have developed without adequate …

Stars—employees with disproportionately high and prolonged (a) performance,(b) visibility,
and (c) relevant social capital—have garnered attention in economics, sociology, and …

Research summary: While firms tend to build on their own knowledge, we distinguish
between depth and breadth of local search to investigate the drivers of these behaviors …

Newcomers contribute to organizational innovation by bringing in new knowledge and
ideas, on the one hand, and by collaborating and exchanging with incumbents, on the other …

Using a unique longitudinal study of US biotechnology ventures, we advance extant
research by showing that a founding team's educational heterogeneity and prior founding …

Do star employees enhance or constrain the innovative performance of an organization?
Using data from 456 biotechnology firms between 1973 and 2003, we highlight the duality of …

Building on labor market evaluations and legacy conservation motivation perspectives, we
propose a mechanism to explain the relationship between CEO career horizons and …

We develop a new typology of star employees, wherein we identify three types of stars—
universal stars, performance stars, and status stars—on the basis of stars' unique …