<title>Abstract</title> Franchising is nowadays a prominent way to organize the distribution sector. While previous literature suggests that monitoring issues are a critical determinant of organizational choices, it is rather silent on the optimal monitoring strategy once the organization of the chain is set....

[fre] Coûts de transaction et choix contractuels : un test économétrique sur une entreprise publique . par Stéphane Saussier . Ce papier étudie la forme des contrats interfirmes au regard de la théorie des coûts de transaction. Nous soutenons que les choix contractuels des agents...

[eng] The Length of Intercorporate Contracts: An Empirical Analysis by Stéphane Saussier . This paper studies the length of intercorporate contracts based on transaction cost theory. We first describe the trade-off in the choice of contract length and then put forward a set of proposals. We...

Using original data concerning organizational choices made by French local authorities awarding their local public services, we show how the spatial dimension may contribute to the debate on public-private partnerships. If geographic agglomeration of private operators may be explain by some...