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Prof. Filippo Carlo Wezel
Professor of Management and Organizations
USI Lugano (Switzerland)

Our paper establishes the phenomenon of hiring via secondary employment affiliations as an effective practice that organizations leverage when targeting employees of other organizations. Our data-driven exploration of the population of hires among Swedish private sector firms suggests that employers achieve better employment outcomes when hiring via secondary employment affiliations. More specifically larger salary increases, higher chances of promotion, and lower rates of inter-firm mobility are observed among employees hired via secondary employment affiliations compared to conventional hires (i.e., employees hired from another organization without a secondary employment affiliation). These differences appear most pronounced among younger and smaller firms. We elaborate on the conceptual implications of these findings for organizations.