Coordination et coopération des supply chains . Un processus dialogique, créatif et résistible qui s’accomplit chemin faisant

Inter-organizational coordinating activities and cooperative practices performed in the run of an experimental category management approach are the focus of this research. Coordination within and across these supply chains is a developmental process always in the making. It unfolds to make ambiguous and uncertain managerial situations more intelligible and to experiment novel possibilities of joint action. Cooperation is resistible and voluntarist: it is neither clan- nor contract-based but relies on an organic solidarity to manage in a creative and dialogical way the inevitable pluralism of views and conflicts.