Academic research in retail logistics frequently emphasizes the importance of the logistics customer service for large retailers wishing to develop a sustainable competitive advantage. This research paper questions the validity of this reasoning, implying an evolution toward an indispensable...

For the last 20 years, large food retailers have had an important place in fast-moving consumer good sales. This article describes their buying strategies, focusing on supplier selection in the case of private label contracts. It introduces the concept of opportunism to explain recent and...

Dans les référentiels d'économie institutionnelle, la méso-analyse de filière se diversifie. En interrogeant la genèse du concept de filière et son application par l'économie industrielle, l'économie rurale et les sciences de gestion, dans l'agriculture et l'agroalimentaire, l'article...

[eng] Food retailing and logistical services : the specificities of the french model . For many years, European food retailers have been controlling the logistics channel by setting up or taking over distribution centers whose task it is to supply the stores network in the place of manufacturers...

[fre] In consumer goods industries, and more particularly in food industry, final demand is more variable. This variability concerns principaly the sales, which levels are fluctuating on short-range. To allow to organize the production's and the distribution's operations, with a reduction of...

[eng] Nowadays the network firm appears as an alternative model for vertical integration. It is constantly in touch, for numerous exchange relationships, with partners in the economy, among which PME are often to be found. Both flexible and adaptable, the network firm so thoroughly combines a...