The role of Small Business in the Development of Network Organisation: The Case of France
研究了大型工业企业如何通过与中小企业增加市场交易（如分包制造）来形成网络组织，并以法国实际案例分析了物流管理在协调外部化运营中的关键作用。
GILLES PACHE IS ASSISTANT Professor of Business Logistics at the Troyes Institute of Technology, University of Reims (France). He has published many journal articles and three books (in collaboration). His research interests include new technology applications to logistics and strategy of small- and medium-sized business. In this research note, the author shows that some big industrial firms nowadays try, rather than vertical integration, to increase market transactions with small- and medium- sized businesses. They sub-contract especially the manufacturing of components, semi-products or even the integral elaboration of finished products. Through the analysis of French actual cases, the author notes that these strategies converge to the emergence of new organisational pattern, the network. Logistics management here plays a principal part in the co-ordination of externalised operations by small- and medium-sized businesses.