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Firm and Industrial Organization Frontiers: An Empirical Model of Inter-firm Network in the Winter Sports Industry

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Economics and Management of Networks

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This paper explores a model of inter-firm network in the case of the winter sports industry. It discusses the problem of skiing resort frontiers and the nature of the inter-firms arrangements to produce the final product i.e. spending holidays in a mountain resort. Two network archetypes are defined. They ensue from two approaches in economics: the Transaction Cost Economics and the French Theory of Conventions. In conclusion, we show that these two networks are complementary. Thus, skiing resorts can no longer be seen as autonomous organizations with spatial boundaries. Their frontiers are extended to the contractual or conventional arrangements which characterize the new winter sports industrial organization.

This research has been possible thanks to the financial support of the Institut de la Montagne (University of Savoie, France).

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  1. IREGE, University of Savoie, 9, rue de l’arc-en-ciel, B240, Annecy-le-Vieux, France

    Rachel Bocquet

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  1. IGR-IAE, University of Rennes 1, 11 rue J. Macé CS 70803, 35708, Rennes, Cedex 7, France

    Gérard Cliquet

  2. Faculty of Business and Information Technology, Department of Business and Management, University of Kuopio, Mikrokatu 1F, 70211, Kuopio, Finland

    Mika Tuunanen

  3. RSM Erasmus University, Burg.Oudlaan 50, Room T8-56, 3062 PA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    George Hendrikse (Chair Economics of Organization) (Chair Economics of Organization)

  4. Center of Business Studies, University of Vienna, Brünner Str. 72, 1210, Vienna, Austria

    Josef Windsperger

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Bocquet, R. (2007). Firm and Industrial Organization Frontiers: An Empirical Model of Inter-firm Network in the Winter Sports Industry. In: Cliquet, G., Tuunanen, M., Hendrikse, G., Windsperger, J. (eds) Economics and Management of Networks. Contributions to Management Science. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-1758-4_15

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