The process of building an industry architecture: the case of Intel's digital home initiative.

Summary Bringing together a literature on the theme of industry emergence and that of partnerships makes it possible to account for a situation of reconfiguration of markets and potentially of industries initiated by an industry leader augmented by the weight of a set of partnerships. The thesis has clarified the idea of a context of convergence, extended the concept of "exploration partnership", underlined the role of people and their creative capacities, formalized types of networks with distinct functions with a new type of actor, distinguished the concept of platform leadership from that of industry architecture leadership that we have introduced. The work of the thesis has also allowed us to highlight the key role of the architecture leader in this reconfiguration process and shows how "the relationship" can also be a vector likely to generate an intangible asset of primary importance.