Knowledge Workers and Firm Capabilities

Eric Mengus and Tomasz Michalski

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Abstract: Specialized knowledge-generating jobs comprise close to one fifth of employment and one fourth of the wage bill in French manufacturing firms. These jobs gained importance over the period 1999- 2015 at the cost of production-related jobs. Conditioning on firm size and shares of management workers, their higher shares in employment at the firm level are correlated with more innovation and intangible capital, greater product complexity, higher total factor productivity and profitability. This suggests that firms use specialized knowledge workers to generate within-firm knowledge and create firm capabilities. Consistently with empirical regularities, we model firms as organizations where efficient production of higher-value added, complex goods requires information acquisition by within-firm knowledge workers to develop capabilities beyond those created by management and hierarchies.

Keywords: firm organization; complexity; productivity; knowledge generation; capabilities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-07-17
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DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4328295

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