IRISSO
Billows Sebastian
INRAE Researcher
Biography
After a thesis on the management of relations between the mass retail sector and its suppliers, he is now interested in the organisation of the agri-food sector. At the same time, he is completing a research on the technicalization of competition law in France and Europe. In all these fields, his focus is on the development, interpretation and reappropriation of economic law and the way it shapes market interactions.
Publications
Articles
Billows S., Carter E., Déplaude M-O., Mazenc L., Nguyen G., Purseigle F., Royer A., Loconto A. (2024), Reconquer and divide: comparative standard-setting strategies among producer organizations, Agriculture and Human Values, vol. Published online 
Billows S., Déplaude M-O. (2024), Legal Repair: Domesticating European Legislation on Pig Welfare, Science, Technology, & Human Values
Bezes P., Billows S., Duran P., Lallement M. (2021), Pour une sociologie de la rationalisation. De Max Weber aux programmes de recherche contemporains, L'Année sociologique, vol. 71, n°1, p. 11-38
Billows S., Kohl S., Tarissan F. (2021), Bureaucrats or Ideologues? EU Merger Control as Market‐centred Integration, Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 59, n°4, p. 762-781
Billows S. (2020), Juriste d’entreprise : un métier déqualifié ?, La nouvelle revue du travail, n°17
Billows S. (2019), Contracts as Compliance Mechanisms: Legal Intermediation and the Endogenization of French Retail Regulation, Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, vol. 81, p. 151-174
Dewitte A., Billows S., Lecocq X. (2018), Turning regulation into business opportunities: A brief history of French food mass retailing (1949–2015), Business History, vol. 60, n°7, p. 1004-1025
Billows S. (2017), La grande distribution et ses fournisseurs. Les usages commerciaux de la loi et du contrat, Revue française de socio-économie, vol. 2, n°19, p. 177-195
Billows S. (2016), A qui profite la concurrence ? Modèles de concurrence et régulation de la grande distribution française (1949-1986), Gouvernement et action publique, vol. 5, n°4, p. 69-91
Billows S., Viallet-Thévenin S. (2016), La fin de l’Etat stratège ? La concurrence dans les politiques économiques françaises (1945-2015), Gouvernement et action publique, vol. 5, n°4, p. 9-22
Billows S. (2016), La politique de l’ambiguïté juridique. Quand l’État tente de réguler les échanges entre la grande distribution et ses fournisseurs, Sociologie du travail, vol. 58, n°1, p. 8-31