This article highlights the importance of power relations in subcontracting relationships and analyzes their impact on firms’ employment management practices. We show that the use of subcontracting creates a chain of inter-firm economic dependency because it leads the principal contractor...

This research has been done in the context of the REPONSE (2010-2011) post survey. The interviews aimed at characterizing the companies' adjustment processes to the 2008 crisis and how they have been discussed, negotiated or forced by management direction. The methodology is built on two parts:...

The goal of this research is to analyse how the power relationship conveyed by subcontracting relations reflects in labour relations. By definition, subcontracting relations apply to situations where the principal contractor plans and conducts the subcontractors' activity and controls the sale...

This article highlights the importance of power relations in inter-firm relations and analyses their impact on firms' employment management practices. We show, firstly, that the use of subcontracting creates a chain of inter-firm economic dependency because it leads the principal contractor to...

This article highlights the importance of power relations in inter-firm relations and analyses their impact on firms' employment management practices. We show, firstly, that the use of subcontracting creates a chain of inter-firm economic dependency because it leads the principal contractor to...