To Stem the Tide: Organizational Climate and the Locus of Knowledge Transfer

Earlier versions of this manuscript benefited from the comments and insights of Luca Berchicci, Saverio Favaron, Cédric Gutierrez, Andy King, Daniella Laureiro Martinez, Martijn Mulders, Markus Nordberg, Lamar Pierce, Martina Zollo, our colleagues at Bocconi, HEC Paris, and IESEG, as well as participants to the SMS 2018 and 2019 Annual Conferences, 2020 Special Issue conference, and seminars at Universita’ della Svizzera Italiana Lugano and Emlyon. The authors are indebted to many for important contributions during the five years of gestation of the paper. To Vittorio Robiglio, Alessandro Sabbadini, and Jorge Sánchez Cremades, for excellent research assistantship. To Erin Lee Martin, for her patient and detailed copyediting and for coming up with such a wicked title. To the editorial team, for allowing us to write the paper we always dreamed of writing in the exact way we wanted to write it. To the qualified informant, for introducing us to the exciting world of physics and for always being on our side along the journey. And of course to Isabelle: this would have never been possible without you. We will be forever grateful for that dinner in Paris, when you decided we were worth the bet.