INSTITUT Veolia Environnement

Report n°2: An integrated approach to economic and social contestability in business

Opening access to sources of supply and the operator's economic contestability

The aim of a recycling operator is to keep for himself supplies of the material he needs to satisfy his main customer's specific requirements. Various barriers to entry and exit help him to achieve this aim; they take place within a covering strategy to control threats of new entry to the upstream market.