This article presents the results of a study on the evolution of modes of control between buyers and suppliers in the Maurienne valley in the nineties. The social control which had prevailed until then was replaced by a market control. Due to the rationalisation of the costs in the buying firms,...

Pour la sixième année consécutive, DRM propose dans ce « Repères » un regard pluriel sur le monde des entreprises en mettant l'accent sur les enjeux et tendances actuels. Parmi les sujets traités cette année, des questions variées liées à l'actualité des organisations sur...

This article presents the results of a study on buyer-supplier control in the manufacturing industry based on six case studies. Four buyer-supplier control configurations are proposed in a matrix according to the reciprocal dependence between the buyer and its suppliers. For each configuration,...

Cet article rend compte d'une recherche menée au sein d'un équipementier automobile sur le contrôle qu'il exerce sur ses fournisseurs. Le contrôle est vu comme processus d'influence et de régulation dans une perspective de coordination des activités tout au long de la coopération. Quatre...

Considering the growing externalisation of strategic activities, the problem of the control of buyer-supplier relationships is crucial. Therefore, researchers usually propose modes of control that are adapted to various environments. However, the organisations are often considered as “black...

The outsourcing of activities raises the problem of the management of buyer-supplier relationships, and in particular of their control. This paper presents a military analysis of the control strategies of a car component maker over its suppliers. The analysis suggests that different strategies...

This article presents the results of a research, analysing modes of control between a car component maker and its suppliers. The study shows that the customer uses separately or conjointly three types of control (on results, on working process or on behaviour), depending on the power -...

This article presents a research on the use of e-mail in the hierarchical control relationship. Three characteristics of this NTIC (quasi contract, large diffusion and conviviality) explain the fact that e-mail is used as a supervision tool by managers and a means for the subordinates to signal...