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Do Mobile Workforces Contribute to Innovation?

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dc.contributor.authorJung, Namji
dc.date.accessioned2011-01-24T21:29:44Z
dc.date.available2011-01-24T21:29:44Z
dc.date.issued2010-06-21
dc.description.abstractAre mobile creative workers mainly responsible for innovation in the creative industry because they mediate knowledge transfer and spill-over that are critical in creating new ideas? This paper explores the labour requirements of digital content production. Drawing on 323 digital content (DC) firm samples located in Seoul, South Korea, this paper explores the causal relationship between human resource practices and innovation. A logistic regression of the data reveals that the additive index of a set of organizational practices that aim to foster internal labor pool including selective hiring, retention, and R&D investment is a statistically significant predictor of innovative capacity of the digital content firms in Seoul. However, the additive index of incentive-based HR practices including high compensation and job security did not show a significant relationship with the innovative capacity of firms. This study provides preliminary evidence on the significance of internal organization, and in particular of the role of internal labor pools, in innovation. This study suggests that the leaders of creative industry firms, particularly those in the digital content industry, should carefully choose between exploitation and exploration in managing their creative workers and creative capacity, since these practices may shape the firm’s competitive advantage.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipDepartment of Sociology, Cornell Universityen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/22081
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherExperience the Creative Economy Conference by Martin Prosperity Instituteen_US
dc.relation.hasversionA further developed version of this paper is presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference in Minneapolis, MN on October 8, 2010.en_US
dc.subjectContingent workforceen_US
dc.subjectOrganizational HR practiceen_US
dc.subjectKnowledge creationen_US
dc.subjectInnovationen_US
dc.subjectDigital content industryen_US
dc.titleDo Mobile Workforces Contribute to Innovation?en_US
dc.title.alternative(Origial Title: Labor Requirements , Organizational Practices, and Innovation in the Digital Content Industry)en_US
dc.typearticleen_US

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