Complementarities between organizational changes, RD activity and technological cooperation for the French manufacturing firms

摘要

This article analyzes the determinants of the French companies’ innovationactivity while highlighting the importance and the complementarities of the organizationaland technological practices’impact. Our results suggest on one hand,that the product or process innovation is determined by the internal and externalattributes of the company (size, demand pull and technological class). On theother hand, the complementarities tests between the technological (R&D activityand technological partnership) and organizational practices showed that thesestrategies are interconnected and that they have complementary effects which callfor their simultaneous adoption. Accordingly, to be able to benefit completelyfrom the positive effect of the partnership and the R&D efforts on innovation,they must be accompanied by certain organizational practices related to a goodskills management and the implementation of an organizational architecture facilitatingthe knowledge creation and sharing.