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Relatedness through experience: On the importance of collected worker experiences for plant performance

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  • Lisa Östbring
  • Rikard Eriksson
  • Urban Lindgren

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We demonstrate that multiple cognitive dimensions exist between employees in knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) and that these dimensions interact in their influence on plant performance. Knowledge and cognitive distance are measured as formal knowledge and industry experience. Pooled OLS regressions with year, industry, and region‐fixed effects are used to estimate the impact on plant performance. The results suggest that the commonly found negative impact of similarity in formal knowledge on plant performance may be reduced by high human capital ratios or high levels of similarity in experience. Moreover, the organizational structures associated with single‐plant and multi‐plant firms, generate different plant performance outcomes of knowledge variety. Se demuestra que existen múltiples dimensiones cognitivas entre los empleados de los servicios empresariales intensivos en conocimiento (KIBS, por sus siglas en inglés) y que estas dimensiones interactúan en su influencia sobre el rendimiento de la planta industrial. El conocimiento y la distancia cognitiva se miden como conocimiento formal y experiencia en la industria. Para estimar el impacto en el rendimiento de la planta se utilizan regresiones de MCO agrupadas con efectos fijos por año, industria y región. Los resultados sugieren que el impacto negativo encontrado habitualmente de la similitud en el conocimiento formal sobre el rendimiento de las plantas se puede reducir mediante altas relaciones del capital humano o altos niveles de similitud en la experiencia. Además, las estructuras organizativas asociadas a las empresas de una sola planta y de varias plantas generan diferentes resultados en el rendimiento de las plantas respecto a la variedad de conocimientos. 本稿では、知識集約型ビジネス支援サービス業(Knowledge intensive business service:KIBS)の企業の社員の間に複数の認知次元が存在することと、これらの次元が工場のパフォーマンスに影響を及ぼすのに相互作用があることを証明する。知識と認知距離は形式知識と業界経験として測定する。年、産業、地域に対する固定効果で、最小2乗法を用いて回帰分析したプールデータを用いて工場のパフォーマンスに対する影響を推定した。結果から、類似した形式知識が工場のパフォーマンスに及ぼす負の影響はよく認められるが、この影響は優秀な人材の割合または経歴の類似性のレベルの高さによって減少する可能性があることが示唆される。さらに、工場が一つだけの企業及び複数の工場をもつ企業に関連する組織構造によって、工場のパフォーマンスの結果として表れる知識多様性の差が生じる。

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  • Lisa Östbring & Rikard Eriksson & Urban Lindgren, 2018. "Relatedness through experience: On the importance of collected worker experiences for plant performance," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 97(3), pages 501-518, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:presci:v:97:y:2018:i:3:p:501-518
    DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12273
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    1. Orsa Kekezi, 2021. "Diversity of experience and labor productivity in creative industries," Journal for Labour Market Research, Springer;Institute for Employment Research/ Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), vol. 55(1), pages 1-21, December.
    2. Solheim, Marte C.W. & Boschma, Ron & Herstad, Sverre J., 2020. "Collected worker experiences and the novelty content of innovation," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 49(1).
    3. Sverre J. Herstad & Marte C. W. Solheim & Marit Engen, 2021. "Collected worker experiences, knowledge management practices and service innovation in urban Norway," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 100(6), pages 1501-1525, December.

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