New entrants, incumbents, and the search for knowledge: the role of job title ambiguity in the US information and communication technology industry, 2004–2014 https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04918213&r=&r=ict
"… job titles offer a meaningful public source of information to select #poaching targets
… knowledge workers whose job titles were more ambiguous tended to be less likely to be poached by other employers. These results are strongest for mobility to industry incumbents.
… New entrants as well as lateral entrants tend to be less sensitive to job title ambiguity than industry incumbents
… #recruiters shy away from knowledge workers with ambiguous job titles
… In contexts characterized by a scarce supply of workers and high degrees of poaching… job title #ambiguity may act as a meaningful way to reduce the poaching of workers from other employers
… firms may decide to strategically leverage ambiguous job titles to increase the odds of #retention of valuable #humanCapital and the knowledge associated with it
… While #jobTitles may serve as a buffer against incumbent firms, they may be less effective against the poaching attempts of entrants or employers active in other industries."
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