Une réflexion sur la position du grossiste dans la Supply Chain: Une explication par le concept de Prison du psychisme

Falk Wagenhausen () and Mohammed Balambo
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Falk Wagenhausen: CRET-LOG - Centre de Recherche sur le Transport et la Logistique - AMU - Aix Marseille Université
Mohammed Balambo: CRET-LOG - Centre de Recherche sur le Transport et la Logistique - AMU - Aix Marseille Université

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Abstract: Research on focal firms is well known in network literature as well as in literature on supply chain management. Nevertheless, the subject of focal companies does not have the same centrality in the specific context of intermediation. In this chapter we question the possibility that the wholesaler can be considered as the focal company in the Supply Chain. Academic literature highlights that the role of wholesalers still remain limited/ restricted to the traditional field of activities. So we propose the concept of "Allegory of the Cave" of Plato to explain this confinement.

Keywords: Grossistes; Pivot; Supply Chain; Canal de distribution; Prison du psychisme; Keywords :; Wholesaler; Focal firm; Distribution Channel; Allegory of the Cave; Plato (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-03-01
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Published in La logistique, une approche innovante des organisations, 2013

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