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, François Fulconis is Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at the Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse

, Gilles Paché is Professor of Logistics and Strategic Marketing at the Université Montpellier I, France, They are both members of the Research Center on Transport and Logistics (CRET-LOG)