Clochard, Gwen-Jirō; Gomez-Gonzalez, Carlos; Henriques … - 2025 - Draft version: February 10, 2025
that firms need to navigate. Leveraging managers' social networks can help reduce search frictions, improve match quality …, and boost firm performance. In this paper, we investigate the role of managers' networks on three dimensions of individual … coaches, 80k players, and 100k movements between teams. First, we find that managers rely heavily on their networks for hiring …
