We synthesize the external enablement (EE) framework with insights from labor economics and strategic human capital to theorize how restrictive policy interventions shape technology ventures' employee recruitment, attending to both sides of the hiring dyad. We engage in a quantitative study of over 220,000 recruiting interactions between technology ventures and candidates on a prominent digital networking platform surrounding the early COVID-19 pandemic policy responses. We find that firms' recruitment declined significantly while candidates' responsiveness increased during the early COVID-19 policy interventions. In turn, young technology ventures were enabled to hire more during the interventions, whereas maturing ventures were enabled to hire differently—acquiring candidates with greater entrepreneurial orientation. Our work extends the EE framework to human resource strategies and to heterogeneous enablement across firm age.

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乌云的一线希望？政策干预对新兴和成熟科技企业在线招聘的影响

我们将外部支持（EE）框架与劳动力经济学和战略人力资本的见解相结合，从理论上解释限制性政策干预如何影响科技企业的员工招聘，并关注招聘的双方。我们围绕早期的 COVID-19 大流行政策应对措施，在一个著名的数字网络平台上对科技企业和候选人之间的超过 220,000 次招聘互动进行了定量研究。我们发现，在早期的 COVID-19 政策干预期间，公司的招聘人数大幅下降，而候选人的响应能力却有所提高。反过来，年轻的科技企业在干预期间能够雇佣更多的人，而成熟的企业则能够以不同的方式招聘——获得具有更强创业倾向的候选人。