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Certification et formes de coordination dans l'organisation de la production industrielle

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  • Joël Thomas Ravix
  • Paul-Marie Romani

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[eng] The purpose of the article is to state, in a first section, the specificity of certification procedures associated with quality control systems and to point the problems they raise from an economic analysis point of view. In fact, these procedures do not refer to product certification but to firm certification and present both a temporal and institutional features. These two characteristics tend to challenge the explanatation power of the traditional approaches such as Transaction Costs Theory, Agency Theory or Theory of Conventions. In a second section, we propose a new theoretical framework based on the articulation of the concepts of production process and competition process. This new perspective, as opposed to the traditional firm-market dichotomy, enlarge the spectrum of inter-firms linkages. The nature and the role of the different existing modes of productives co-ordination (partnership, sub-contracting, co-operation, supplying) can be then analytically explained. [fre] L'objet de l'article est de préciser dans une première partie la spécificité des procédures de certification des systèmes d'assurance-qualité et les problèmes qu'elles posent à l'analyse économique. En effet, ces procédures ne renvoient pas à une certification de produit mais à une certification d'entreprise et présentent une double dimension temporelle et institutionnelle. Ces deux caractéristiques sont suffisantes pour mettre en doute le pouvoir explicatif des approches traditionnelles qui s'inspirent de la théorie des coûts de transaction, de la théorie de l'agence ou encore de la théorie des conventions. Un nouveau cadre d'analyse est donc proposé, dans une deuxième partie, fondé sur l'articulation des concepts de processus de production et de processus de concurrence. Cette nouvelle perspective permet de rompre avec la dichotomie traditionnelle entre firme et marché en ouvrant l'éventail des liaisons industrielles à des modalités différentes de coordination des activités productives. Il devient alors possible de préciser la nature et la fonction de la certification des systèmes d'assurance-qualité des entreprises, mais aussi de délimiter, sur le plan analytique, la place du partenariat au sein de la diversité des relations inter-firmes (sous-traitance, fourniture, coopération,...).

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  • Joël Thomas Ravix & Paul-Marie Romani, 1996. "Certification et formes de coordination dans l'organisation de la production industrielle," Revue d'Économie Industrielle, Programme National Persée, vol. 75(1), pages 275-290.
  • Handle: RePEc:prs:recind:rei_0154-3229_1996_num_75_1_1620
    DOI: 10.3406/rei.1996.1620
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