In recent years, Western business managers have
been heeding the exhortations of business journalists
and academics to move their companies toward
long‐term, collaborative “strategic partnerships” with
(5) their external business partners (e.g., suppliers).
The experts’ advice comes as a natural reaction to
numerous studies conducted during the past decade
that compared Japanese production and supply
practices with those of the rest of the world. The
(10) link between the success
...
been heeding the exhortations of business journalists
and academics to move their companies toward
long‐term, collaborative “strategic partnerships” with
(5) their external business partners (e.g., suppliers).
The experts’ advice comes as a natural reaction to
numerous studies conducted during the past decade
that compared Japanese production and supply
practices with those of the rest of the world. The
(10) link between the success
...
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