Determinants of interorganizational employee mobility : systematic literature review

Zdrilić, Iva (author), Došenović Bonča, Petra (author), Aleksić, Darija (author)

This article provides a comprehensive overview of the determinants of interorganizational employee mobility and proposes their multilevel typology across different sectors and industries. We conduct a systematic literature review of 158 papers in this field. Our results show that some determinants of employee mobility also appear as mobility effects, closing the “determinants–interorganizational employee mobility–effects” circle. They also show a hierarchy among mobility determinants, different types of interorganizational mobility, and different effects when mobility occurs between competing and cooperating organizations. This study primarily contributes to the career development literature, which recognizes interorganizational mobility as the primary mechanism for achieving individual work–life balance goals. By systematically constructing a multilevel typology of mobility determinants and examining their effects across different sectors and industries, the study’s findings also contribute to labor economics by helping to understand the motivations of mobile employees and mitigate potential negative consequences of such mobility.

• Language: English
• Keywords: interorganizational mobility, systematic literature review, multilevel typology, mobility determinants, mobility effects
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 50-79
• Numbering: Vol. 27, iss. 1, article no. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-167872
• UDC: 658.3
• ISSN on article: 2335-4216
• DOI: 10.15458/2335-4216.1352
• COBISS.SI-ID: 228414211
• Publication date in RUL: 18.03.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Economic and business review
• Publisher: Univerza v Ljubljani, Ekonomska fakulteta
• ISSN: 2335-4216
• COBISS.SI-ID: 268649216

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: zaposlovanje, zaposlitvena mobilnost, bibliometrična analiza

Projects

• Funder: Other - Other funder or multiple funders
• Funding programme: University of Rijeka
• Project number: ZIP-UNIRI-2023-16
• Name: ZIP-UNIRI-2023-16

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P5-0117-2018
• Name: Trajnostna konkurenčnost slovenskega gospodarstva v evropskem in globalnem okviru