Soutien et renforcement de la sous-traitance industrielle: Défis et Perspectives

Supporting and Reinforcing Industrial Subcontracting: Challenges and Perspectives / دعم وتعزيز المناولة الصناعية: التحديات والآفاق

30-31 Oct 2023 M'sila (Algeria)

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Supporting and Reinforcing Industrial Subcontracting: Challenges and perspectives / دعم وتعزيز المناولة الصناعية: التحديات والآفاق

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Under the high patronage of the Wali of Willaya of M'Sila and the Rector of Mohamed Boudiaf University - M'Sila

The Entrepreneurship House of Mohammed Boudiaf University - M'Sila

and Faculty of Economic, Commercial and Management Sciences

in partnership with

Research laboratory “Stratégies et Politiques Economiques en Algeria (SPEA)”,

Research laboratory “STRATEV”,

and Chamber of Commerce and Industry El-Hodna

organize in hybrid mode (In presence and online)

2^nd Edition of International Colloquium

Entitled

Supporting and Reinforcing Industrial Subcontracting: Challenges and Perspectives

M'sila (Algeria), 30 - 31 October 2023

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Throughout the experience of the industrial countries, industrial sub-contracting has demonstrated a substantial contribution in the development of their industrial sector. Industrial sub-contracting has become one of the main streams in several research disciplines, including strategic management, supply chain management, international business, information systems, as well as technology and engineering disciplines. This managerial practice is followed by a voluminous number of enterprises around the world. Enterprises that engage in sub-contracting relationships traditionally aim to derive cost advantages and focus on strategic competencies. Therefore, they transfer organizational processes and value chain activities to outsourcing partners. To ensure efficient and effective sub-contracting relationship, partners have to use suitable information and infrastructures, coordination and monitoring mechanisms, and logistic capabilities. From a macro-economic point of view, industrial sub-contracting allows intensifying the economic web and ensuring work division and specialization.

In the context of the relaunch of its industrial sector, Algeria has seized this strategic choice in the portfolio of its strategic alternatives due to its effect on the national economy in general, and on the enterprises engaged in this field in particular. The Algerian government has deployed numerous initiatives and efforts in order to activate, support, reinforce, and modernize the practice of industrial sub-contracting among the Algerian enterprises. Since the beginning of the economic opening in 1990s, an organism called “Bourse Algérienne de Sous-traitance et de Partenariat” (Algerian Sub-contracting and Partnership Exchange - ASPXs), which groups four regional ASPXs, was created. Simultaneously, a national Council was created in order to manage all these initiatives. This national Council is considered as the backbone for the development of industrial sub-contracting practice. The Algerian government has also followed the creation of these institutions by a considerable set of laws and rules.

Despite the creation, since more than two decades, of the “Conseil National de Développement de la Sous-Traitance” (National Council for the Development of Sub-contracting) and the four regional ASPXs across the Algerian territory, their presence did not reach the level of projected ambitions and aspirations. This situation may due to the absence of sub-contracting culture among shareholders, the lack of outsourcing parties’ trust in sub-contractor small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the expansion of the informal economy, besides the lack of industrial enterprises’ awareness of the important role of sub-contracting practice in the development of the industrial sector in general, and their enterprises in particular.

OBJECTIVES OF THE COLLOQUIUM

This colloquium is part of the Algerian university opening towards its socio-economic environment. The colloquium aims to rally all potential actors in order to discuss the theme of the colloquium, including researchers, public authorities, businessmen, enterprises’ managers, as well as students of the faculties of economics and business, management, engineering, and technology of different universities. It also aims to group new start-up creators, particularly those who aim to engage in industrial sub-contracting relationship. Moreover, the colloquium aims to establish a bridge of communication, coordination, and integration between enterprises that desire to outsource some of their activities, sub-contractor SMEs, the Sub-contracting and Partnership Exchange of the East, located in Constantine (Algeria), as well as the National Council for the Promotion of Sub-contracting in Algiers.

The purpose of the colloquium is to get practical and helpful conclusions, which may provide innovative, appropriated and successful solutions by researchers to the stakeholders of industrial sub-contracting practice. The colloquium will further allow to benefit from the transfer of knowledge, know-how, as well as from the international expertise in this field of research. Scientifically, the colloquium aims to shed more light on the fields of research that focus on methods, mechanisms, and tools, which in turn allow developing, modernizing, and relaunching the practice of the industrial sub-contracting in Algeria and overseas.

COLLOQUIUM TRACKS

Papers should focus on researches that analyze how to support and reinforce the development and the practice of industrial sub-contracting. Therefore, submitted papers should belong to one of the following tracks:

TRACK I: INDUSTRIAL SUBCONTRACTING PROJECT: MOTIVATIONS, PERFORMANCE AND CHALLENGES