L'objet de cette étude est d'analyser l'exercice du contrôle au sein d'alliances verticales marquées par une forte asymétrie de dépendance entre des partenaires. Deux études de cas sont réalisées et portent sur le contrôle que des clients dépendants de leurs fournisseurs partenaires...

The purpose of this article is to explore roles of industrial partnership agreements through the literature about budgets. The analysis confirms the roles proposed by the inter-organizational literature (more specifically by the relational approach) and highlights also roles and drawbacks not...

L'externalisation croissante des activités stratégiques des entreprises pose le problème de la gouvernance des relations client-fournisseur. L'article présente les résultats d'une recherche sur le sujet à partir de six études de cas d'entreprises industrielles. Quatre configurations de...

Partnership, vassalage, market, and lordship: 4 buyer-supplier configurationsThis article presents the results of a study on buyer-supplier control in the manufacturing industry based on six case studies. Four control configurations are proposed according to the purchasing environment of buyers....

Theoretical explanations of the decision to outsource typically range from functionalism (search for efficiency) to institutionalism (search for legitimacy). Up to date, most empirical studies on the subject have been carried out relying on secondary data sources and are generally inspired by...

This research aims to analyze the role of positive and negative emotions in decisions about supplier switching in the hotel industry. It shows how, in addition to switching costs and relational norms, positive emotions, such as happiness, empathy, gladness and satisfaction, also act as switching...

This article presents the results of a study on the evolution of modes of control between buyers and suppliers in the Maurienne valley in the nineties. The social control which had prevailed until then was replaced by a market control. Due to the rationalisation of the costs in the buying firms,...

This article presents the results of a study on buyer-supplier control in the manufacturing industry based on six case studies. Four buyer-supplier control configurations are proposed in a matrix according to the reciprocal dependence between the buyer and its suppliers. For each configuration,...

Considering the growing externalisation of strategic activities, the problem of the control of buyer-supplier relationships is crucial. Therefore, researchers usually propose modes of control that are adapted to various environments. However, the organisations are often considered as “black...

Pour la septième année consécutive, DRM propose dans ce « Repères » un regard pluriel sur le monde des entreprises en mettant l'accent sur les enjeux et tendances actuels. Parmi les sujets traités cette année, des questions variées liées à l'actualité des entreprises sur...