How do firms' sales interact across markets? Are foreign and domestic sales complements or substitutes? Using a large French firm-level database that combine balance-sheet and product-destination-specific export information over the period 1995-2001, we study the interconnections between exports...

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly been estimated on cross-sectional data. It considers four nonlinear dynamic simultaneous equations models that include individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated...

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly been estimated on cross-sectional data. It considers four nonlinear dynamic simultaneous equations models that include individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated...

This paper investigates obstacles to innovation faced by French manufacturing firms. Using CIS2 data, we distinguish between obstacles in postponed projects and obstacles in abandoned projects. First, we highlight the most important barriers to innovation faced by firms, and find that lack of...

This paper studies competencies and human resource management practices of French manufacturing firms. Using the French survey Competences pour Innover 1997, we highlight various collective and individual competencies used in an innovation perspective. Detailed descriptive analysis permit to...

This paper investigates arrangements capable of enhancing, capturing and utilizing knowledge within the firm. Using French data set, we aim at studying the complementarities between knowledge management and human resource management practices (henceforth, KM and HRM), and their impact on...

This paper examines the knowledge creation, sharing and transferring process within manufacturing firms in an innovation perspective. Using French data set, we study complementarities between specific human resource management practices (HRMP) and knowledge management. We focus on four specific...

We use a French firm-level panel data set over the period 1993-2004 to analyze the relationship between credit constraints and firms' R&D behavior over the business cycle. Our main results can be summarized as follows: (i) the share of R&D investment over total investment is countercyclical...