The entry mode choice on a new market is always a hot issue for both practitioners and academics. One of the most widely used solutions is franchising. This chapter explains why in emerging market this option can be interesting. It also delineates the different suboptions within the franchise...

Based on competition at market and suppliers levels, companies owned by a distribution group follow a cooperation strategy on the logistics operations. The concept of relational strategy is helpful to describe and analyze the coordination structure set up by the observed companies. The purpose...

L'externalisation et les centres de services partagés appliqués à la fonction administrative et comptable constituent des innovations organisationnelles rendues possibles avec le développement de l'informatique et des systèmes de gestion intégrés qui assurent une transmission de...

The literature on new forms of organization (especially network organizations) is more focused on the description of inter-organizational structures than on an analysis of the management located within these complex configurations. The control of relationships between organizations belonging to...