Donghwi Seo

Purpose This study explored moderating effects of employee generations on factors related to employee retention and motivation in the workplace. Design/methodology/approach The authors developed a survey instrument and collected the survey data via Amazon Mechanical Turk. After filtering out bad responses, the authors ended up with 489 sample cases for this study. The authors used structural equation modeling for data analysis. Findings Evidence showed that only transformational leadership was s

Abstract Research Summary How does the dyadic collaborative structure between the hiring firm and the losing firm influence knowledge spillovers following an employee's move? We demonstrate that knowledge spill‐ins (to the hiring firm) and spill‐backs (to the losing firm) are the greatest when a firm with a strong collaborative density hires an employee from another firm that too has a strong collaborative density. Furthermore, such a dyadic combination results in the greatest degree of access t

Abstract Research Summary Through a longitudinal study of the product development portfolios of 457 US‐based firms in the biotechnology industry, we investigate how prolific inventors shape a firm's innovative direction following product development failure. Contrary to received wisdom, we argue and demonstrate that an increase in the number of prolific inventors is associated with a decrease in firm propensity to pursue novel product innovation following such failure. We further find that the p

Purpose This paper aims to examine the effects of intellectual property rights (IPRs) on firm performance, considering the mediating effect of process innovation and the moderating effect of organizational innovation. Additionally, this study investigates both the direct and indirect effects of IPRs on firm performance. Design/methodology/approach We employed partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to examine proposed hypotheses. Our analysis attempted to analyze 3,750 Korea

Demand for foreign nurses and medical staff is rapidly increasing due to the severe labor shortage in U.S. hospitals triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, empirical studies on the effect of the racial diversity of medical staff on hospital operations are still lacking. This research gap is thus investigated based on the foreign medical staff working in 3870 U.S. hospitals. Results show that workforce racial diversity has a significantly positive relationship with hospital operational effi

ABSTRACT As firms increasingly incorporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns into their strategic agendas, stakeholder legitimacy—an audience‐conferred judgment of organizational appropriateness—has become pivotal. We theorize legitimacy as expanding a hybrid response portfolio in which firms may pursue substantive change (business model innovation [BMI]) alongside symbolic communication that can become ESG washing when disproportionate to operations. Integrating legitimacy, i

Abstract 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 independent from each other, resulting in a structural divide. We provide a detailed account of the research on employee mobility and the structural divide across disciplines. We document that the payof

This study examines the association between environmental turbulence and annual report readability. We argue that companies operating in highly turbulent environments may exhibit lower annual report readability due to the industry’s increased environmental uncertainty. Using a sample of US firms from 1993 to 2019, we find that industry technological and market turbulence are negatively related to annual report readability. This study demonstrates the importance of considering environmental turbu

This study examines how engineers who moved either from targets to acquirers or vice versa prior to M&As create joint knowledge in the post-acquisition period. We investigate the effect of mobility direction and human assets on joint knowledge creation by using the data on 693 mobile engineers obtained from high-technology M&As for the period 1973-2009. Our empirical results show that the mobile engineers who moved from acquirers to targets prior to M&As create joint knowledge more by collaborat

How do differences in the collaborative structure between the hiring firm and the losing firm affect knowledge spillover following employee mobility? We demonstrate that knowledge spill-in and spill-back are the greatest when a firm with a strong collaborative density- i.e., a high level of intra-firm collaboration- hires an employee from, or loses an employee to, a firm that also has a strong collaborative density. Access to the knowledge not developed by the mobile employee is also the greates

A central determinant of a firms’ competitive advantage is their ability to generate new products in the marketplace. However, in technology intensive industries, the development of new products is often fraught with uncertainty and such projects often result in failure. Although a rich body of literature has examined how firms may learn from these failures, missing from this prior work is much understanding of how key organizational players shape firms’ learning from failure incurred in the pro

Project-based firms (PBFs), due to their project-centric operational process, frequently experience routine discontinuity and organizational amnesia. These unique challenges often hinder their ability to convert experiences of failure into adaptive learning for future exploratory projects. This research, rooted in the theories of organizational learning and escalation of commitment, seeks to fill a crucial knowledge gap regarding how PBFs can effectively utilize failure experiences to facilitate