- A-Z
- Jena Economic Resea...
- Volume 2
- The Use of Knowledg...
- Autor(in)
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Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
- Erschienen
- 11. Januar 2008
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2008-002
- Schlagwort(e)
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innovation
knowledge management
Mannheim Innovation Panel
- Zusammenfsg.
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In this paper we investigate factors that influence a firm’s decision to implement knowledge management practices. Our focus is on knowledge management practices implemented to increase collaboration between actors within a firm on innovation activities. Using information on over 1,500 innovative German firms from the Mannheim Innovationpanel of 2003, we find that an innovation strategy targeted at consumers and continuous R&D activities is positively related to KM usage. In addition, more general firm characteristics like size and the industry of a firm do influence the decision to use knowledge management as well.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- article research fields JER
- evolutionary economics
- JEL-Classification for JER
- D23 - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights ; O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; O32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D