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Title: | Mounting corporate innovation performance: The effects of high-skilled migrant hires and integration capacity | Authors: | Laursen, Keld LETEN, Bart NGUYEN, Ngoc Han VANCAUTEREN, Mark |
Issue Date: | 2020 | Publisher: | Source: | Research policy, 49 (9) (Art N° 104034) | Abstract: | We adopt an organizational learning approach to examine how firms’ recruitment of high-skilled migrants contributes to subsequent firm-level innovation performance. We argue that due to migrants’ often different experience from that of native high-skilled workers, their perspectives on problem-solving and access to non-overlapping knowledge networks will also differ. The implied complementarity between these worker types makes migrant hires a particularly valuable resource in the context of firm-level innovation. We refine our diversity hypothesis further by predicting that migrant hires who add to the firm's cultural diversity should contribute more to firm innovation performance than new high-skilled migrant hires who do not add cultural diversity. Finally, we conjecture that firms with high integration capacity as a function of prior experience of employing high-skilled migrants should derive more innovation-related benefits from migrant hiring than firms with a low integration capacity. We track the inward mobility of high-skilled workers empirically using patents and matched employer-employee data for 16,241 Dutch firms over an 11-year period. We find support for our hypotheses. | Keywords: | High-skilled migration;Innovation;Immigrant/firm cultural match;Integration capacity | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/31875 | ISSN: | 0048-7333 | e-ISSN: | 1873-7625 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.respol.2020.104034 | ISI #: | WOS:000579983900007 | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2021 |
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