Strategic Alliances
» Strategic Alliances, Volume 4, Issue 4, 2004
Let’s talk about long-term formal and informal cooperative agreements with other businesses.
1I. How many purchaser or supplier, such as Total Quality Management, agreements with other businesses does your firm currently hold?
Response | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | None | 77 | ||
2 | One | 4 | ||
3 | Two | 6 | ||
4 | Three or more | 12 | ||
5 | DK/Refuse | 1 | ||
Total (%) | 100 | |||
N | 610 |
Notes: Twenty-two (22) percent of small manufacturers have one or more purchaser or supplier, such as Total Quality Management agreements with other businesses (Q#1I).