Scholars dedicated increasing attention towards appreciating how design has changed individuals' perception of new products, firms' understanding and formulation of strategy, or other relevant actors' approach to innovation and technology management. By emphasising the importance of design for...

Major theoretical contributions have recently advocated a paradigm shift to a "new dominant logic for marketing", integrating customer-to-customer interactions and balancing "high tech and high touch" services. In this paper we attempt to illustrate the relevance of such a framework to...

Strategic partnerships are theoretically now considered as real levers of value creation. This value creation takes different forms . The objective of our research, after analyzing the results of empirical works focused on the acquisitions announcements impact on the stock market performance and...

Recent changes in environmental legislation have focused company thinking on business practices, particularly concerning the importance of integrating environmental concerns like outsourcing and procurement in supply chain networks. Supply chain partners are becoming progressively more...

Improving the performance of supply chains is a critical issue in nowadays industry. In that purpose, cooperation between partners motivates a great attention. Technical aspects of current cooperation procedures as promoted by large companies are firstly described, and compared to some real...

The environment complexity in which supply chain members are evolving leads them to adopt opposite strategies in a constructive way. In this sense companies tend to create value by cooperation and, at the same time, capture value by competition. This ago-antagonistic behavior generates a...

In supply chains, which are organizational systems that integrate complex behavioral interactions, partners adopt bipolar strategies that join paradoxical and constructive behaviors to evolve in nowadays environment. This enables them, on one hand, to converge towards common interests through...

La notion de chaîne d‟ingénierie est récente. Revue de la littérature retrace sa construction. Ses analogies avec les concepts de filières et de supply chain son étudiés. Une vision de cette chaîne combinant gouvernance, management, ingénierie et intelligence territoriale au service...

L'alignement des systèmes d'information (SI) avec la stratégie d'affaire ou la structure, que ce soit de l'entreprise ou d'un réseau donné, présente une préoccupation majeure des entreprises soucieuses de leur devenir. Au sein d'une supply chain considérée comme un type de réseau et...

L'adoption de la démarche Supply Chain Management (SCM), centrée sur la logistique, apparaît comme un outil de performance pour la firme, puisque son ambition affichée est de répondre au triple objectif d'amélioration des niveaux de service, de réduction des coûts et de création de...