Mobility, skills, and the michigan non-compete experiment

Management Science

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 875-889

  Marx, Matt ^a   Strumsky, Deborah ^b   Fleming, Lee ^a  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Design of experiments; Innovation; Labor; Organizational studies; Personnel; Research and development; Statistics; Strategy

Indexed keywords

AUTO INDUSTRY; EMPLOYEE MOBILITY; EXOGENOUS SOURCE; INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS; LABOR; LEGAL CONSTRAINT; LITTLE RESEARCH; MICHIGAN; NATURAL EXPERIMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; STRATEGY; TECHNICAL FIELDS;

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; RESEARCH; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

PERSONNEL;

EID: 67651119773     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1080.0985     Document Type: Article

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