In order to implement and comply with food safety and traceability regulations, companies may use a number of methods, including specialized information and communications technologies developed for this express purpose. As a result, compliance with regulatory obligations, and the use of...

L'article présente les résultats d'une recherche sur le contrôle client-fournisseur en milieu industriel à partir de six études de cas. Quatre configurations de contrôle client-fournisseur sont présentées dans une matrice en fonction de la dépendance réciproque entre le client et ses...

The plane production constraints, and more particularly an international multisite constraints, raise a strong question of productive and cognitive coordination of a complex technical product. This question treates the coordination, the design and the realization of the subsets and the...

To address a gap in the literature that deals with official quality labels, the article proposes a methodology for analysis and a conceptual framework that are subsequently applied to two such quality labels from the south west region of France : ‘Volaille Fermières des Landes’ and...

From a voluntary production, free software fulfil to be broadly diffused on the market side. The commercial success of these software is attented by an active participation in their development from a large number of firms. We explain this participation by the opportunities of free software...

The objective of the project is to assess the strengths and weaknesses of different forms of coordination in the development of quality chains in developing countries. Such forms of coordination include: signs of quality (labels, brands, geographical references); horizontal coordination...

The capacity of family agriculture in Brazil to meet the challenge of producing a large diversity of food products, characterized by subjective attributes, corresponding to specific needs, and using the appropriate technologies or know-how, represents, jointly with proximity, its main...

This article proposes a taxonomy of the conventional forms of coordination of the action based on the progressive weakening of their interpretability. After having proposed to weaken the load of rationality contained in the Lewis\'s convention, defined like Common Knowledge, one proposes to...

French Abstract: Ce papier poursuit deux principaux objectifs à savoir : (i) déterminer l'impact de la libéralisation du secteur des télécommunications sur le prix des services aux utilisateurs et (ii) déterminer l'impact de cette libéralisation sur la croissance économique dans les pays...