Role of network counterparties and relational structure in knowledge resource dependence evidence from professional football soccer player transfers

Abstract

Often scholars have noted that firms are increasingly depending on acquiring professionals from other firms. The inter-firm mobility of professionals, also referred as knowledge resources, is a result of competition between firms to obtain the best resource which culminates into forming inter-organizational networks. Extant research shows that inter-organizational mobility of knowledge resources influences actions and outcomes of both source and destination firms. Knowledge flow due to mobility of professionals further embeds the firms in competitive interdependence. The risks of such interdependence are high when there is asymmetry in competitive advantage between the firms. However, existing studies are yet to consider the implication of competitive interdependence in the inter organizational network of knowledge resource mobility. newline