Knowledge management, innovation, and productivity
Subtitle: a firm level exploration based on French manufacturing cis3 data
By: Elizabeth Kremp, Jacques Mairesse.
Contributors: Mairesse, Jacques.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 10237; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 10237.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Knowledge management -- France.; Technological innovations -- France.; Industrial productivity -- France.; Manufacturing industries -- France.
Description: "In modern knowledge driven economies, firms are increasingly aware that individual and collective knowledge is a major factor of economic performance.  The larger the firms and the stronger their connection with technology intensive industries, the more are they likely to set up knowledge management (KM) policies, such as promoting a culture of information and knowledge sharing (C), motivating employees and executives to remain with the firm (R), forging alliances and partnerships for knowledge acquisition (A), implementing written knowledge management rules (W).  The French 1998-2000 Community Innovation Survey (CIS3) has surveyed the use of these four knowledge management policies for a representative sample of manufacturing firms.  The micro econometric analysis of the survey tends to confirm that knowledge management indeed contributes significantly to firm innovative performance and to its productivity.  The impacts of adoption of the four surveyed KM practices on firm innovative and productivity performance are not completely accounted by firm size, industry, research & development (R&D) efforts or other factors, but persist to a sizeable extent after controlling for all these factors"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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