TY  - JOUR
AU  - Kremp,Elisabeth
AU  - Mairesse,Jacques
TI  - Knowledge Management, Innovation, and Productivity: A Firm Level Exploration Based on French Manufacturing CIS3 Data
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 10237
PY  - 2004
Y2  - January 2004
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10237
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10237.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Elisabeth Kremp
BANQUE DE FRANCE
44-1356 - Direction des Entreprises
Responsable du service de l'Obervatoire des entrep
31 rue croix des petits champs
75049 PARIS CEDEX 01
FRANCE
Tel: 01 42 92 56 58
E-Mail: Elisabeth.kremp@banque-france.fr

Jacques Mairesse
INSEE, CREST
15, Boulevard Gabriel PERI
92245 MALAKOFF CEDEX
FRANCE
Tel: 33-1-41-17-35-50
Fax: 33-1-41-17-76-34
E-Mail: mairesse@ensae.fr
AB  - 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.
ER  -