Professional mobility has profound importance for firm strategy, innovation, and productivity. Prior work on legal constraints on mobility has focused on non-compete covenants and patents. Here, we investigate the impact of the doctrine of inevitable disclosure in U.S. state-level trade secrets...

Collaboration is increasingly the norm in many creative domains. Among collaborative ties, repeated ones are especially beneficial as they entail fewer frictions, facilitate greater amounts of information transfer, and engender more trust – all contributing to more creative outputs. Prior...