On hiring and careers: new evidence from Swedish data
Release time：09 February 2026
Mar
20
|
Time & Date
|
12:00 pm
-
13:30 pm,
March
20,
2026
(Friday)
|
| TOPIC | On hiring and careers: new evidence from Swedish data |
| TIME&DATE |
12:00 pm - 13:30 pm, March 20, 2026 (Friday) |
| Venue | Rm 403, Teaching Complex D Building |
| Speaker | Prof. Filippo Wezel The University of Hong Kong |
| Abstract | Hiring, especially inter-organizational hiring, is key to the success of organizations yet marked by its unique challenges. We propose hiring via secondary employment affiliations (HiSEA) as a novel approach to tackle those challenges and conceptually elaborate on the advantages that organizations may achieve from HiSEA compared to conventional hiring, i.e., directly hiring from other organizations without a secondary affiliation. We test our theory along various employment outcome and leveraging data from the Swedish private sector: compared to conventional hiring, HiSEAs obtain higher entry salaries, faster salary growth, higher promotion and lower interfirm mobility rates. These benefits appear to be most pronounced among entrepreneurial organizations. We elaborate at length on the contributions of our work to the literature on new forms of hiring, strategic human capital, and entrepreneurial hiring. |
| Biography | Prof. Filippo Carlo Wezel is a Professor of Management and Strategy at HKU Business School. His research lies at the intersection between organization theory and strategic management, and focuses on the impact of social structures in markets on organizational behavior and performance, and on careers within and around organizations. His work has been published in leading academic journals. He is currently a Senior Editor at Strategic Management Journal (SMJ). Before SMJ, he served at SE at Organization Science. Prof. Wezel has been a Faculty member at USI (Switzerland) and Tilburg University (The Netherlands), and, has acquire further academic experience as a visiting scholar at the MIT, Columbia, Wharton, Duke, Cambridge University, London Business School, and London School of Economics. |
