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).
