Research output
Peer-reviewed articles and chapters on knowledge workers, employee mobility, organizational learning, innovation, and corporate renewal.
Zunino, D., Cirillo, B., Wezel, F., & Breschi, S. Industrial and Corporate Change, 33(1), 172–193.
Job titles are a first, highly visible source of information about knowledge workers. Using 11,644 career histories, we show how title ambiguity shapes mobility to new entrants and incumbent firms.
Zakaryan, A., Tzabbar, D., & Cirillo, B. Industrial and Corporate Change, 32(6), 1245–1266.
Using pharmaceutical recalls, we examine how response time and variation in the reasons for past failures influence whether firms learn from failure.
Tzabbar, D., Cirillo, B., & Breschi, S. Organization Science, 33(6), 2250–2273.
We distinguish collaboration and technological centrality to explain why corporate inventors remain, join another employer, or found a new venture.
Cirillo, B., Tzabbar, D., & Seo, D. Advances in Strategic Management, 41, 15–36.
A multidisciplinary map of employee-mobility scholarship that identifies persistent structural divides and opportunities for theoretical integration.
Agarwal, R., Bidwell, M., Cirillo, B., & Tzabbar, D. Advances in Strategic Management, 41, 37–54.
A cross-disciplinary conversation connecting strategic human capital and human-resource perspectives on employee mobility.
Cirillo, B. Organization Science, 30(2), 361–382.
Corporate-venture spinouts can become a distinctive channel through which parent firms learn and improve invention quality in unfamiliar technological areas.
Cirillo, B., Breschi, S., & Prencipe, A. Research Policy, 47(9), 1585–1600.
R&D unit spinouts disrupt established collaboration patterns, loosen clique lock-in, and create new connections within corporate invention networks.
Cirillo, B., Brusoni, S., & Valentini, G. Organization Science, 25(6), 1764–1784.
Corporate spinouts can rejuvenate long-tenured inventors by increasing exploration and reducing reliance on the parent organization’s knowledge.