Alliances stratégiques et formes de contrôle dans les coopératives agricoles

Maryline Filippi and Pierre Triboulet

Revue d'économie industrielle, 2011, vol. n° 133, issue 1, 57-78

Abstract: Agricultural co-operatives, the main actors of French agriculture, have undergone some drastic transformations since the 1990?s with the development of « private » subsidiaries and partnerships. These raw changes show that co-operatives need to increase production by investing in the processing stages. For a better understanding of these changes, we look after strategic alliances defined as coordination of assets, resources and competencies between concurrent firms. We analyse alliances between agricultural groups of firms, which lead to a formal business structure and are identified in the national statistical databases in 2003. Main results are firstly that alliances between co-operatives aim at a concentration of economic power with different patterns according to the presence or not of a « leader » co-operative and secondly that the spatial dimension plays leadership role in the concentration and partnership strategies.

Keywords: Cooperative Groups; Territorial Anchorage Strategies; Strategic Alliances; Network Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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