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We focused on mobile engineers, a distinctive employee group that may have unique reactions to mergers and acquisitions (M&amp;As). Mobile engineers, employees that move from one firm to another, were previously recognized as an undesirable loss by most knowledge-intensive organizations. However, in this study, we show that they may return to their former organizations as effective knowledge creators when their previous and new organizations unite through M&amp;As. We specifically investigated how their mobility direction, relational assets, and intellectual assets affect the amount of knowledge that is jointly created through inter-personal collaborations following the M&amp;A. Using the data of 410 mobile engineers in high-technology M&amp;As during 2000–2004 in the United States, we found that the mobility direction from acquiring firms to targets prior to M&amp;A has a positive impact on joint knowledge creation. We also found that such mobility direction positively moderates the relationship between human assets of mobile engineers and their joint knowledge creation.

How Do Mobility Direction and Human Assets of Mobile Engineers Affect Joint Knowledge Creation after M&As?