Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/191761 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
CFR Working Paper No. 18-04
Version Description: 
January 31, 2019
Publisher: 
University of Cologne, Centre for Financial Research (CFR), Cologne
Abstract: 
Firms’ competitive advantages are unsustainable when competitors poach their employees away to study and recreate those advantages. We document inter-firm knowledge spillovers through labor mobility in the mutual fund industry. About one quarter of the competitive advantage of the originating fund family spills over to the recipient family. These knowledge spillovers intensify when switching managers had better access to the organization processes of the originating family and frictions hampering knowledge absorption are weaker. Ease of knowledge integration, greater organizational similarity, and lower information barriers at the recipient family—acting as mitigants for the aforementioned frictions—also magnify these knowledge spillovers.
Subjects: 
organization capital
knowledge spillovers
mutual funds
learning-by-hiring
JEL: 
D86
G23
K12
K31
M5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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