Management of knowledge workers
Hvide, Hans K.
Management of knowledge workers by Hans K. Hvide and Eirik Gaard Kristiansen - Journal of law and economics Volume 55, number 4 .
We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers who leave with innovative ideas and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We show that firms protected weakly by complementary assets must sue leaving workers in order to obtain positive profits. Moreover, firms with more complementary assets pay higher wages and have lower rates of turnover, but the higher pay has a detrimental effect on worker initiative. Finally, our analysis suggests that strengthening firms’ property rights protection reduces turnover costs but weakens worker initiative.
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Knowledge management--Knowledge worker
Learning organization--Knowledge worker
HB73 JOU
Management of knowledge workers by Hans K. Hvide and Eirik Gaard Kristiansen - Journal of law and economics Volume 55, number 4 .
We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers who leave with innovative ideas and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We show that firms protected weakly by complementary assets must sue leaving workers in order to obtain positive profits. Moreover, firms with more complementary assets pay higher wages and have lower rates of turnover, but the higher pay has a detrimental effect on worker initiative. Finally, our analysis suggests that strengthening firms’ property rights protection reduces turnover costs but weakens worker initiative.
00222186
Knowledge management--Knowledge worker
Learning organization--Knowledge worker
HB73 JOU