5. Specific features of management control
The question is whether classic management control tools can be easily transposed to collaborative situations, and with what specific features.
5.1 Trends towards poorer control
To a certain extent, it could be said that collaborative strategies tend to lighten certain control procedures. This is, in fact, one of the objectives: to avoid excessive agency costs, which are a handicap for integrated, hierarchical organizations.
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Let's take the example of the franchise network. In an integrated company, whose development has been capital-intensive, the sales outlets are branches belonging to the company, and run by salaried managers who may behave opportunistically, and who must be controlled by implementing costly...
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• Study the cultural aspects linked to the success or failure of alliances, especially when the partners are from very different countries. See, for example, C. Barmeyer and U. Mayrhofer: "Management interculturel et processus d'intégration: une analyse de l'alliance Renault Nissan", revue Management et avenir 2009/2 http://www.cairn.info
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