Firms, governance and territoriality: an economic review of the diversity of the 'filieres d'appellation d'origine'.

摘要

The 'filieres d'appellation d'origine' all have a similar legal foundation and rely on the same notion of products possessing specific qualities that are related to territory. But they are not a homogeneous group. This paper contributes to the understanding of the economic diversity of these supply chains by analysing three aspects of their organization - the strategies of the individual firms (where we emphasise the models of enterprises); the different forms of coordination, that are indicative of the different collective strategies of the firms involved; and thirdly the territorial dimension of these localized systems of production where we find a tension between sectoral and territorial forms of governance.